Top 80 Chris Martin Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Life is beautiful in all it’s colors, even the darker ones, they’re here for a reason.”

— Chris Martin

2. “Coldplay fans are the best in the world. If you like Coldplay then you’re obviously very intelligent and good looking and all-around brilliant.”

— Chris Martin

3. “Everything that’s happening to you, is what’s suppose to be happening to you. So just relax.”

— Chris Martin

4. “I’d rather be a comma than a full stop.”

— Chris Martin

5. “I’ve never been cool and I don’t really care about being cool. It’s just an awful lot of time and hair gel wasted.”

— Chris Martin

6. “Nothing matters except life and the love you make.”

— Chris Martin

7. “Life is miraculous, even when it’s disastrous, it’s still incredible, I’m fascinated with everything, life is fascinating, I’m fascinated by trees and dogs, but no one wants to hear me talk about it.”

— Chris Martin

8. “Cool to me is following what you believe in.”

— Chris Martin

9. “I don’t mind not being cool.”

— Chris Martin

10. “Those who are dead are not dead, they’re just living in my head.”

— Chris Martin

11. “Everything in my life is a fragile decision that somebody else made.”

— Chris Martin

12. “I’m just a public-schoolboy. I’ve got a degree. I’m from a middle-class family in Devon. I’ve got no story.”

— Chris Martin

13. “Sometimes we have criticism that is very constructive.”

— Chris Martin

14. “The goal is to try and make the perfect song. Which of course will never happen.”

— Chris Martin

15. “I don’t drink, I don’t take drugs, I don’t smoke.”

— Chris Martin

16. “The idea of Ghost Stories is how to turn something bad into something that gives you an uplift.”

— Chris Martin

17. “It’s difficult when you’re successful, to admit that you need help.”

— Chris Martin

18. “Music comes from a place we don’t know.”

— Chris Martin

19. “In my mind, when God made women, he did an amazing job. I think girls are just perfect.”

— Chris Martin

20. “There’s a reason why people who’ve had bad relationships with their parents listen to angry stuff.”

— Chris Martin

21. “Anyone who criticises me for talking about fair trade is a few pebbles short of a beach. Because everyone should care about it, just like everyone should care about the environment, because we all live here.”

— Chris Martin

22. “You can sometimes get your own feelings across more strongly if you pretend that you’re singing it from someone else’s angle. But it’s always from me. It’s just a new way of framing it.”

— Chris Martin

23. “When I’m 40, too old to be a rock star, I plan to go back to college to study classical music.”

— Chris Martin

24. “A band’s only unique thing is its chemistry, especially if none of you are prodigious players or particularly handsome. The one thing you have is your uniqueness, so we hold on to that.”

— Chris Martin

25. “Anything where we’re the butt of the joke, no one tells us about it.”

— Chris Martin

26. “Abstract painting is dead. That’s why it has become so interesting again.”

— Chris Martin

27. “When you’re on your fifth album, you are going to be judged against all your previous work and expectations.”

— Chris Martin

28. “I’ve had tinnitus for about ten years, and since I started protecting my ears it hasn’t got any worse – touch wood.”

— Chris Martin

29. “So what Ghost Stories means to me is like, you’ve got to open yourself up to love and if you really do, of course it will be painful at times, but then it will be great at some point.”

— Chris Martin

30. “I get more people approaching me about how good I was in ‘Napoleon Dynamite’ than being in Coldplay.”

— Chris Martin

31. “I’ve either got an acute case of hypochondria or I’m falling apart at the age of twenty-three.”

— Chris Martin

32. “I do an hour’s yoga and go running every day. Then I see a picture of myself and I still look like a skinny, potbellied idiot – and I thought I had turned into this superhunk!”

— Chris Martin

33. “Celebrity culture has gone crazy, and I think the reason is that real news is just not bearable, and it also seems impossible to change anything.”

— Chris Martin

34. “Looking after your ears is unfortunately something you don’t think about until there’s a problem.”

— Chris Martin

35. “Men should always change diapers. It’s a very rewarding experience. It’s mentally cleansing. It’s like washing dishes, but imagine if the dishes were your kids, so you really love the dishes.”

— Chris Martin

36. “Rihanna is mysterious and fascinating.”

— Chris Martin

37. “There is something glamorous to me in taking a bit of a beating and keeping on going.”

— Chris Martin

38. “I would still give my left ball to write anything as good as OK Computer.”

— Chris Martin

39. “When the lights go down, that’s 30,000 peoples lives colliding. Everyone there working is working for that moment, everyone watching is watching for that moment. It’s when you’re all in agreement about what you’re all doing so it’s a wonderful feeling of togetherness and possibility.”

— Chris Martin

40. “Those have been the two biggest challenges of my life: trying to follow Radiohead, and trying to follow Brad Pitt.”

— Chris Martin

41. “I don’t mean to sound like a cheap prostitute, but you can call me what you like.”

— Chris Martin

42. “I could be walking down the street one minute and get a handshake and then get spat on the next. I’m never sure whether to wear gloves or a helmet.”

— Chris Martin

43. “You gotta wear the right trousers if you’re gonna be a rock star.”

— Chris Martin

44. “I have to brush my teeth before I go on stage otherwise I don’t feel smart enough.”

— Chris Martin

45. “The word mystical is an even worse word than spirituality – that artists take drugs, and then they add some crazy extra thing to what we all know is real. But our job as artists or as human beings is to investigate what we really think is real.”

— Chris Martin

46. “Anything that we think is incredible and beautiful and wonderful, we ascribe to something that we don’t know what it is.”

— Chris Martin

47. “I just want to make the best music of all time with my best friends.”

— Chris Martin

48. “Economically, unfair trade will benefit nobody in the long run, as poorer countries will be bled totally dry and will become unable to produce anything.”

— Chris Martin

49. “As an artist, one doesn’t know what is real. And so there’s a search and a process of trying to locate something that feels or appears or somehow resonates with us on a deeper level. This is why art is such an interesting business to be in.”

— Chris Martin

50. “Well, I don’t like the word ‘rock star,’ the two words, ‘rock star.’ Not even ’soft rock star. Not even limestone star. I don’t like those words.”

— Chris Martin