Top 80 Chris Martin Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “I can’t believe we’ve got away with becoming this huge band. And we still haven’t done anything I think is that good yet.”

— Chris Martin

52. “I think it’s part of being English, particularly if you are middle-class – you’re always looking to be reminded that you are no good and you are always actually embarrassed about being successful.”

— Chris Martin

53. “I think shareholders are the great evil of this modern world.”

— Chris Martin

54. “I’m competitive with anyone who writes a good song – I don’t care if it’s a band or solo artist or whoever.”

— Chris Martin

55. “I don’t think you can be a mysterious rock star the same way you could in 1965 because there’s too much information. Everything you do is available all the time. So the only thing you can rely on is not being false.”

— Chris Martin

56. “I don’t speak particularly well. That’s one of the consequences of being extremely ugly.”

— Chris Martin

57. “Being such a big band is never a problem but it can be distracting.”

— Chris Martin

58. “More idiots should just shut their mouths.”

— Chris Martin

59. “Although it’s painful at the time, most of the things that people have said about us negatively – some of them are true and you can work on them, and the ones that you don’t agree with, you don’t work on.”

— Chris Martin

60. “You know, it’s possible for two humans to be in a relationship without there needing to be some public reason for that relationship.”

— Chris Martin

61. “I’d get sent home from the first audition of So You Think You Can Dance. My dancing is sort of controlled spasms. I fully accept it might appear ridiculous. But it’s passionate!”

— Chris Martin

62. “I think that the fact that a relationship becomes public is a bit of a bummer. Because it can distract from the real reason why you’re together, which is that you just like each other.”

— Chris Martin

63. “I don’t actually own a car.”

— Chris Martin

64. “It’s more egalitarian on the Internet – anyone can put anything up. But in terms of the money it takes to allow a band to get good, there’s less of it to invest.”

— Chris Martin

65. “Everyone asks me about being so worried or thinking about existence as if I’m the only person who can’t understand why a tree grows the way it does or why a person is in power when they’re not that great. These are questions everyone has.”

— Chris Martin

66. “I never talk about my wife: we’re both in public professions but we try to keep our private life private.”

— Chris Martin

67. “So I have probably 1,200 little bits of paper with notes, which when the Ambien really starts to kick in, don’t really make much sense. Say what you like about prescription drugs, but they do help when you’re sequencing a record.”

— Chris Martin

68. “All the children of America, up to age seven or eight or nine or ten – they’re really great artists. So here we’ve got this amazing work that very few people pay any attention to, and it’s not valued by the culture.”

— Chris Martin

69. “There comes a point where it doesn’t matter how many zeroes are at the end of your bank account.”

— Chris Martin

70. “Coldplay frontman Chris Martin has found his niche in making the sound of solitude a triumphant experience, like Good Will Hunting: The Musical.”

— Chris Martin

71. “Even though the album is an endangered species, can we try and make a coherent and good one, even if it’s like making a horse and cart at a Nascar conference?”

— Chris Martin

72. “Music is split up now into little pockets.”

— Chris Martin

73. “The physical thing of having a man following you around all day trying to take your photograph – it’s eerie. There is a pure physical response. If you go up and kick a dog, it will bite you. But with photographers, you can’t do that.”

— Chris Martin

74. “If a few companies were less greedy, the people at the bottom woud have a lot more.”

— Chris Martin

75. “It’s very hard to find things that rhyme with North American Free Trade Agreement.”

— Chris Martin

76. “Before our albums are released I feel like we still own it, that we have control over our music. But once it’s out there in the world it’s no longer ours.”

— Chris Martin

77. “The most extravagant thing I’ve ever bought is 95 tops all the same.”

— Chris Martin

78. “I know being on a major label is meant to be antiquated, but we’re fine with it.”

— Chris Martin

79. “Record sales don’t really mean anything. For us, the pressure is imagining some 15-year-old kid in Cincinnati who buys our album and doesn’t feel like he wasted his pocket money.”

— Chris Martin

80. “I have my moments – usually twice every album – when I basically lose it.”

— Chris Martin

81. “He helped John Cusak get his girlfriend back.”

— Chris Martin

82. “In America idea of freedom isn’t actually about freedom. That’s about power. The point of an artist is to find out what are the flavors that I must work with. Finding one’s freedom is about surrendering to your helplessness.”

— Chris Martin

83. “I personally really like getting a proper album with artwork and everything.”

— Chris Martin

84. “If your wife went out with Brad Pitt, you’d want to prove yourself, you know what I mean?”

— Chris Martin

85. “You can never say you’re big – I don’t think you can ever take anything like that for granted.”

— Chris Martin

86. “What makes us a bit nervous is, in this instant age, to release something that might take more than one listen. Where everything is instantly judged on YouTube or something! It’s a bit like releasing a horse and cart on a racetrack.”

— Chris Martin