Chris Martin citáty

„Život je zázračný. Dokonce i když je katastrofální, stále je neuvěřitelný. Fascinuje mě všechno, život mě fascinuje, stromy a psi mě fascinují, ale nikdo mě nechce slyšet o tom mluvit.“

„Můj tanec je něco jako ovládaná křeč.“

„Nikdy jsem nebyl "cool" a vážně o to nemám zájem. Je to děsná spousta času a vyplýtvaného gelu na vlasy.“

„Je to jen o ženách. Zvláštní, že cokoliv jiného je ve tvé mysli, ať už je to pád globální ekonomiky nebo příšerné ekologické problémy; věc, co tě vždy dostane nejvíce, je, když jsi někým okouzlen.“

„Jen chci dělat tu nejlepší muziku s těmi nejlepšími přáteli.“

„Až mi bude čtyřicet, což je přílišné stáří na to, být rockovou hvězdou, vrátím se zpět na vysokou studovat klasickou hudbu.“

„Ale vážně si myslím, že by bylo spravedlivé, nechat při Amerických prezidentských volbách hlasovat každého člověka na světě, protože to postihuje nás všechny.“

„Každý, kdo mě kritizuje za to, že neustále mluvím o Fair Trade (*hnutí), je jako pár oblázků na písečné pláži. Protože o to by se měl starat každý. Stejně tak, jako by se měl každý starat o životní prostředí. Všichni tu žijeme.“

„Mnoho idiotů by mělo prostě zavřít pusu.“

„Cokoliv, o čem si myslíme, že je to krásné, neuvěřitelné a úžasné, připisujeme k něčemu, o čem nevíme, co to je.“

„Pro mě je "cool", když si jdeš za tím, v co věříš.“

„Cílem je zkoušet a složit dokonalou píseň. Což se, samozřejmě, nikdy nestane.“

„Podle mého názoru, když Bůh tvořil ženu, vykonal úžasnou práci.“

„Je to těžké, když jste úspěšní, připustit, že potřebujete pomoc.“

„Kdyby bylo několik společností méně chamtivých, lidé na nižším místě by mohli mít mnohem více.“

“It’s hard to perfect a happy song. Pharrell managed it. Stevie Wonder managed it. Bill Withers managed it. I haven’t managed it yet.”

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

“They balance each other out. Chris and I are like Jay and Beyonce; two paranoid ironists and two calm grounded people.”

“I think a band by its very nature is only as good as the chemistry between the players. None of us in rock bands, or whatever kind of bands we’re in, are virtuosos, otherwise we’d be concert pianists. So the only thing you have in your favor as a band is your unique chemistry.”

“What changed for me was – I don’t want to go through life being scared of it, being scared of love, being scared of rejection, being scared of failure.”

“The reason why I wouldn’t commit suicide… well, the main reason now is ’cos I have a baby and I would never commit suicide because of her. But to me, committing suicide from a nihilistic point of view is pointless, because we’re all gonna die anyway, so why not just hang around and see what happens? D’you know what I mean? If something is inevitable, why board the plane early?”

“Q: Everyone picks up a certain emotional vulnerability in your music.”

“I definitely believe in God. How can you look at anything and not be over-whelmed by the miraculousness of it?”

“To know where you come from makes where you are even more special.”

“Life is miraculous. Even when it's disastrous, it's still incredible.”

“I think as people listen to the album more it'll become its own thing more, but it'll also become apparent how much we've plagiarised. To me, really, at the end of our album we should've had a bibliography.”

“Coldplay is for people with great taste, intelligence, incredible good lookingness, talent, ability, success, grabbing of life. Coldplay's for people who know what life's about. They're always entertaining. Delightful to talk to. Sweet, charming, incredibly good in bed. Virile. They have incredible success with girls, or boys, or both. They're generally just the world's best citizens. Maybe I'm biased, but I'm definitely right.”

“There's no reason not to stand for this song, come on, if you stand we'll buy you all ice cream”

“Chris is proof of how wonderful humans can be when they really put their minds to it.”

“I’ve been banging the drum on that sort of thing, environment sustainability, for a long time – and getting some flack for it along the road – so yes I’m pleased other artists are starting to get on board with it too, but listen, really taking flack is what we do – it’s ok, I’m cool with that.”

“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.”

“How it did - in terms of commercial performance, is not how it feels to us. At the time it felt like this is not quite finished and not quite right.”

“It’s no accident that so many fabled rock ensembles have had two contrasting leaders (Lennon and McCartney, Jagger and Richards, Plant and Page, Bono and The Edge) to play off each other and cross-pollinate and, at times, butt heads. But Chris Martin completely dominates Coldplay; there’s no yin to his smiley enraptured yang. He’s the rock-king superstar the other band members all worship, humbly, as the genius who made their fates possible, and almost every moment of the band’s creative energy is organized around what Chris is going to do next: the piano chords he’s playing around with, the lyrics he’s writing, his endless studio perfectionism.”

“Chris Martin of Coldplay was spot-on when he burst on to Graham Norton’s set and described the karmic moment represented by Donald Trump’s success in being elected President of the United States. Mr. Martin said, in terms, that Trump expressed the feelings of millions of people, and that doing so is a refreshing and crucial part of democracy.”

“In the British vacuum of passive-aggressive public transport and mumbled apologies, Chris Martin’s stomach-ribbing charisma on stage can be as nauseating as doing star jumps right after lunch, and it’s not hard to see how the everlasting hate for Coldplay was born. But when we hate on them, are we just acknowledging that we want to experience more from life? Or are we negating the fact we feel these everyday – average, yet no less meaningful – emotions deep down, too? I think it’s a bit of both.”

“Britain thought he could now go back to being just some English bloke and eating chips. It turns out this notion is utterly wrong, because when Martin walks into a room, I am rather startled to find that a stellar quality enters with him. His energy hits you from across the room: the intense stare, the piercing blue eyes, the feet that are usually barefoot nowadays.”

“Wayne Coyne: Well, I really think that there’s an authenticity and a truth in Chris in the way that he sings to the audience. And even though you’d have to think there has to be some difference between playing to a couple of hundred people when they started and playing to literally tens of thousands of people now, I still see that in him. That’s why I like them so much, because he is the real deal. He’s not faking it when he gets up there and that enthusiasm still effects him. So in that way, I think they’re virtually unchanged. They haven’t become these unapproachable mega rock stars.”

“Undeniably handsome, Martin has a floppy, slightly fey quality that leaves women feeling divided between mauling and mothering him.”

“After we did the Super Bowl, we took so much s*it, and then we went on the biggest tour we’ve ever been on, it made me realize: okay some people really like what we do and some people really don’t – and we love them equally. I’m just happy and grateful to be a human, I don’t mind if you don’t love what we do but we do love what we do.”

“Every phrase can be a good lyric if it has the good rhythm.”

“If you can give someone the pleasure of not liking you, maybe that’s as valid as the pleasure of liking you, some people want to assert themselves by showing the things they don’t like. It’s a form of positioning yourself. We all do that. I get it. But I’m more focused on the people who do like what we do, and there’s a few of them. I like hanging out with those people. If you ever liked Coldplay, then we’re going to really deliver on our promise over the next year or so. It’s not guarded music. It’s about very open things and that might not resonate with some people. But I don’t want to obscure our music behind coolness or cynicism just to avoid criticisms. Because for some people it really connects, and I need it, too.”

“I always felt that, as a musician, we show up for one day for a cause and we really believe in what we’re talking about, but then the next day we have our own concerns. I want to try to have a more long-term relationship between artists and people who are really trying to affect change in the world.”

“It does something to your brain which is odd… you have to work really hard not to be a real d**k (in personal life).”

“Not cool. Ever. 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. At school I was a medium-clever geek. If you’re at public school (Sherbourne) and you’re not that good at rugby, you spend quite a few important years of your life feeling like a real loser. We’ve never been about cool. What’s happened to us is more about showing that the geeks at school can get there in the end. And you have to stay true to who you are, the root of all this is to do with our friendship.”