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Chris Martin Quotes

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I got these from http://coldplay.till-morning.net/quotes ... + these are all the Chris ones they have. Hope you find a couple you like. :)

Julia xox

 

 

Chris: "[Trouble] is about the time that I accidentally shot Will in the shoulder, and he couldn't play tennis for a year! He was livid! No..."

 

Chris: "We came in by helicopter just five minutes ago. No, Will and I turned up in a Ford Escort and they wouldn't let us in the car park! We couldn't park next to Posh's limo....We've got nothing! Will came in by bicycle and Guy's on a donkey. He's still in London, dammit!"

 

Chris: "We have people to do everything for us. In fact, we're not here."

 

MTV Latin man: "I hear your next single 'The Scientist'. When you write this song, what kind of feelings do you put into the song?"

Chris: "Well, it's a song about girls. Or a girl. But it could be a boy. Or a dog. Everyone should relate to it." (Sept. 2002 NME Article)

 

Chris: "No matter how big we become, we can never capture the Celine Dion fans. And no matter how good we get, we'll never be as beautiful and pretty as Westlife. So those are two markets we'll never get. Or wait, hold on a moment. To be honest...sometimes, when I look around in our wardrobe, I think "yes we do actually look as good as Westlife."

 

Fan: "I LOVE YOU CHRIS!"

Chris: "You don't know me. I'm a TWAT!"

 

Interviewer: "You have to do [interviews] otherwise people would think you were aloof."

Chris: "A loof? What's a LOOF?.... OH! aloof! Not like a loof of bread!"

 

Chris (hearing 'In My Place' on a radio station): "No! Don't play that! Please play something else!"

 

Steve Lamacq (interviewer): "The Scientist sounds a bit like putting someone on a pedestal. Is that something you do?"

Chris: "Well yeah, definitely. It isn't about anybody specific, but it is about someone nice. I put everyone on a pedestal, I put Jonny on a pedestal. Well, it's about girls and how great they are and how difficult they are."

 

Chris: "That's it, Jonny, I'm turning into Sting! Goodbye!"

 

Fan: "Do you consider yourselves to be an emotionally unstable band?"

Chris: "What, is this Parkinson?!"

 

Chris: "What's your boyfriend's name? Henry... the stud? Henry Le Stud?"

 

Chris: "You're counting 'oh yeah' as a 'yeah'? No no no, in the throwaway singer lyric book, 'oh yeah' is different to a 'yeah'."

Jonny: "An 'oh yeah' is worth half the value of a 'yeah'."

 

Chris: Yeah happy birthday to Will, fifteen years old today!"

Will: "I went to see my first 15 film this morning."

Chris: "And we got him a Bic razor."

 

Chris (about preparing for the Glastonbury festival): "Have you ever seen Rocky IV? We went to Russia and got a log cabin, just chopped wood."

 

Chris: "If you do see our album in a bargain bin at a Shell garage then pick it up for £2.99."

 

Chris (about what would happen if Will fell sick and couldn't perform): "We'd get Animal from the Muppets to stand in."

 

Chris: "We can be as nasty as the next man."

Will: "I've kicked a McDonald's worker."

 

Chris: "Now for this last song we are going to turn on all the lights so everyone can see how lovely everyone else looks. And young men can see young women and then go off into the night and have children."

[Jonny laughs]

Chris: "...and please, if you are underage, wear a condom"

[Jonny and Guy laugh]

Chris: "Now if you are 17 and forgot to wear a condom this song is for you, this song is called Trouble"

 

Chris (during 'The Scientist'): "...You don’t know how lovely you are, I had... [coughs] ...set you apart - true professionalism! - Tell me you... Ah, fuck it up, come up to... [laughs] It’s a hit single, who cares! ... lovely you are, coming up circles [laugh laugh], coming up tales, heads on the silence apart..."

 

Chris: "We have just written a song called 'Monday, Bloody Monday' and we reckon it's going to be massive."

 

Chris : "Ahhh, remember Carlitos?"

Guy: "Of course I remember that geezer. Cool as fuck, man!"

Chris: "Aye, so cool that I was thinking of keeping him to become our roadie."

Guy: "Nah, he was so cool that me and the lads were thinking of keeping him instead of you."

 

Interviewer: "...and i don't mean to say this, because I'm an engaged girl, but you have the most amazing blue eyes I have ever seen."

Chris: "Oh, thanks a lot. I think it's the light in here. I mean, also the surgery I had so thanks a lot."

 

Chris: "I can be a total cowboy."

 

Chris: "It's a funny day when you realize that Jennifer Lopez is just as ugly as you in the morning... well, maybe not as ugly as me, but you know what I mean."

 

Chris: "Einstein never wore socks. Geniuses don't wear socks... Do I? All the time."

 

Chris: "We're that sort of people that the song 'Video Killed The Radio Star' is all about!"

 

Chris: "I can tell you from experience that an ant doesn't really get you high, it's a mistake."

 

Chris: "I always feel guilty that someone has to come and clean my room, so I always try to give it a brief tidy first. I leave a tip and a nice note. I'm not lying, ask anyone that's slept with me."

 

Chris: "Eminem is amazing ... brilliant. I knew him when he was first starting out. He used to say to me, 'D'ya think I'll make it, Chris?' I used to say, 'Yeah, you'll make it, Em.' But he was always forgetting his name, he'd always have to remind himself by asking, 'My name is...?' 'My name is....?' The poor fella."

 

Chris: "Mellow, that's our next single, a bit like Yellow only slower."

 

Chris: "1823 - we've been a band for 116 years, that's why some people say we're richer."

 

Chris: "That's the only reason why we stay on tour. I like nothing more after a hard day's work than to do loads of cocaine, meet some local whores and then talk about how great Radiohead are, and how we should be more like them."

 

Chris: "Since the dawn of history there's been next big things and most of them are never a big thing."

 

Chris: "The rest of the band isn't here because... they're basically asleep."

 

Q Magazine: "Do you know how pineapples grow?"

Chris: "They grow on trees, don't they?"

Q Magazine: "No, they grow in the ground like cabbages."

Chris: "Fuck off! Bollocks they do!"

 

Chris: "Well, people might not know that Will... Will's a good swimmer. Put that in. This is the sort of thing people want to know. We're all good swimmers actually. [long pause and he sighs]... If we all went down in a plane crash, then we might be interesting. I wonder what people might say about us?"

Interviewer: "What do you think they would say?"

Chris: [thinks for a second] "'I thought they said they were good swimmers!'"

 

Chris: "We got a police escort from the hotel to the venue. Everybody's here. I've just met Brian Wilson. Does life get any better?"

 

Chris: "I'm convinced we have it in us to write the best album ever made, while Liam Gallagher is forced to resort to advertising Remington shavers on television. Ha! [laughs triumphantly] ...that was my Liam Gallagher diss, by the way."

 

Chris: "We have a song called 'In My Place,' and it was a cool song but it was just waiting to be Coldplay. Jonny just played a beautiful riff and it just made my life."

 

Chris: "Everything's presented by something in America. We present ourselves, thanks a lot."

 

Chris: "I might die tomorrow, so I better get on and write a classic!"

 

Chris: "This might be the cheesiest thing you've ever heard... but it might be nice!"

 

Chris: "I never really read anything about us that I agreed with or was true. Nobody has any idea really about the band because nobody says anything. We really should do...but we're saving it for our book."

 

Chris: "We were ambitious little gits!"

 

Chris: "I'm into running and fruit, not drugs."

 

Chris: "We have 14 minutes left and I have to play something? In that time, we could play 'Bohemian Rhapsody' twice!"

 

Chris (after playing a song titled 'A Ghost': "I had to make up the second verse... The band will be fuming! They hate that song! I'm sorry for playing those songs."

 

Chris (about interacting with the fans on stage): "It's not like, now I'm going to say that thing I planned in the sound check. It's just what happens, it's just our personalities! I just do whatever mood we're in. I often say something if we have a technical problem."

 

Chris: "I'm going to sleep like a log. I'm going to France to resurrect our failing career."

 

Chris: "We were just sat there one day and trying to sound like Neil Young, and Yellow came out."

 

Chris: "Seriously, I'm being deadly serious, I just bought PJ Harvey's guitar, I'm trying to sound like her."

 

Chris: "It would be pointless if we all jumped around while doing acoustic ballads."

 

Chris: "I'd love to be a surfer, but I'm just rubbish. If I wasn't such a brilliant frontman of a brilliant band, I'd probably do this."

 

Chris (about Parachutes): "If it brings the world population up, that's a good thing."

 

Chris: "At festivals, you're outside and you can't hear anything, so you forget that you're playing songs that you like."

 

Chris: "Me and the drummer had a fight, but we went to our dressing room and listened to Sigur Rós, and we were friends again."

 

Chris: "Deep down we’re Blink 182."

 

Chris: "I don’t care if people think I have sex with badgers."

 

Chris (during a live gig): "If you came to see Cher, that was last night but we’ll be doing her hits later."

 

Chris: "When I was in my teens I thought wearing trousers made in India was the coolest thing."

 

Interviewer: "Has Bono got back to you about mentioning his 'weave'?"

Chris: "That was blatantly a joke. If I were to say half of Westlife have got false legs, you wouldn't believe me. But that is, in fact, true. Thats why they can't move properly!"

 

Chris: "In a sex-off with Blue we'd totally fucking trash them!"

 

Interviewer: "If you could ban one fruit, which fruit would it be?"

Chris: "Simon Cowell."

 

Chris: "We've got lots of ideas... not sure how good they are, though. We play two new songs live, one's called 'Why Does It Always Snow On Him' and one's 'Deadwood'... the titles just popped into our heads."

 

Chris (on his first meeting with Jonny): "It was musical love at first sight."

 

Chris: "People say we've become more arrogant whereas I say we've just become more confident. Or they say Chris has no hair and we liked it better when he had long hair. It's strange."

 

Chris: "It often seems that our hardcore fans are the ones that hate us the most."

 

Chris: "I can't listen to ['Shiver'], it makes me really depressed. If I said that to the rest of the band, they'd shoot me."

 

Chris: "There's thousands of people who think we're terrible, but there's thousands of people who think Bob Dylan's terrible, but they should all be hospitalized."

 

Chris: "It's ridiculous trying to have to break it down into media-friendly soundbites afterwards but we're buzzing like fireflies man. We've got to go and have a big party now. No words can express the joy of being in Coldplay. Let me just translate it by this sound: 'wheeeeeeee......'"

 

Chris: "We haven't done anything yet, you know? If I die tomorrow, I'd still have to be the one to be impressed to meet John Lennon in the afterlife, and I'd like it if we could meet on equal terms. And if I could say, 'You know, I'm in Coldplay,' and he said, 'Well, I'm in the Beatles,' and, you know, 'Let's have a drink.' And argue about who was the best. And that would be great."

 

Chris: "Like if George W. Bush and China put on some Coldplay and went, 'Let's be friends.' That would be nice."

 

Chris: "As long as one person buys the album... We don't care if it's 30 million people or 10 million people, as long as it's over 5 million people..."

 

Chris: "...and Guy and Will were having a cigarette outside-- each. They don't share anymore, cos we've got more money."

 

Chris (during T in the Park): "The best cure for coldness is singing a Coldplay song!"

 

Chris: "Hello, I'm Chris, singer in the band Coldplay, welcome to the Ticking of Clocks, the losing of plots, the story of Coldplay in America, listen to how much we've turned into total wankers. Bye!"

 

Chris: "The only time I thought I'd be involved with the police was when I met Sting."

 

Interviewer: "What's up with you two? Are you in love?"

Chris and Jon: "We are." [Chris leans over and kisses Jon on the cheek]

 

Jon: "We don't buy each other Christmas presents. We buy each other birthday presents..."

Chris: "Do we? I remember getting 'Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants' off you for my birthday. Thanks a lot."

Jon: "One year you bought me James Brown..."

Chris: "What, the actual man?"

 

Chris: "We were in the same hallway at campus, guitarist Johnny and I. We'd come to London to be great students. It hit me one of the first nights we were sitting there, 'Oh my god, this is the man I want to spend the rest of my life with. I finally found him.' I thought. I'm talking about music now. There's nothing sexual about it, this. But you knew that..."

 

Chris: "I can't stop farting."

 

Chris: "Then I woke up and looked in the mirror and thought 'Fucking hell, a popstar!'"

Jon: "WHAT?! Was Kylie next to you?"

 

Chris: "We went to Ireland and Bono invited Will and Guy over for lunch. He said, 'Just jump in a taxi and say 'Bono's House,'' and it worked! So we might send him [a Christmas card] : 'Bono, Ireland'."

 

Chris: "P Diddy said we were the only rock band that ever made him cry... cos we were so shit! [P Diddy voice] 'I cried at the state of music'. I said he made me cry when eight of his bouncers held guns at me. No, I didn't."

 

Chris: "...and there was stuff going on with Jonny and me, personal stuff."

[Jon giggles]

 

Interviewer: "That's just one new song. There's one called 'Moses', right?"

Chris: "I can't tell you the titles, man. [pause] But one's called 'Moses', one's called 'Gravity', one's called 'Sweet Marianne'.."

 

Chris: "We are just a bunch of spotty blokes."

 

Chris (to Brian Wilson): "Brian, you're so ace! I love you even more than I love Ian McCulloch..."

Brian: "Security."

 

Jon: "When we met it just seemed perfectly right."

Chris: "Like falling in love."

 

Interviewer: "So you're here for the VMA's, you're up for I guess 3 awards for The Scientist, for best direction--"

Chris: "Best erection?"

 

Chris: "If you sit with Coldplay for half an hour, I'm the only one you'll get an impression of because I'm a loudmouth idiot."

 

Chris: "Sailing. I hate sailing. I have no time for it. Get yourself a motor! I feel like going up and saying that to people."

 

Interviewer: "I'm hoping, I'm imagining that Rammstein sing about pretty much the same subject matter as you guys sing about."

Chris: "In fact, he sings recipes. From what I can work out."

Interviewer: "What would be a rough translation of a couple of his songs?"

Chris: "One of them is "Three eggs. Two pints of milk..."

 

Interviewer: "Well, that's your one vice isn't it? Chocolate?"

Chris: "Yeah, well, one of them. Chocolate and bondage."

 

Chris: "We've made millions of dollars off ['Yellow'] alone but you can't tell that just by looking at Guy's shoes."

 

Chris: "Well, this is the part where you all sing, now you've only got one chance before one of us gets shot or something so take it."

 

Chris (during a Canadian gig): "When you're in someone else's country you should sing some of their music, so that's what we'll do... 'He was a skater boy, she said see you later boy..."

 

Chris: "Hello Sydney! Now don't fucking lie to me, none of this 'Hello Cleavland!' bullshit. I mean, if your name is Sydney then 'Hello,' if you are Sally or Peter or anything like that, 'Hello' to you too."

 

Chris (to Jon as photos were being taken of Jon): "...and the lovely boy here ignoring me is Jonny. Jonny, tell the camera what a lovely boy you are, show them that face..."

 

Interviewer: "Do you think that you will become the next U2 in the music scene?"

Chris: "Do you mean U3?"

 

Interviewer: "What's makes you shiver?"

Chris: "Being cold... as simple as that."

 

Interviewer: "So, will you be playing at the wedding...?"

Chris (genuinely confused): "What wedding?"

Interviwer: "Is there going to be a wedding this year, maybe?"

Chris: "What wedding? [suddenly realising] Oh... oooh.... oh... erm..."

Jon: "No I'm definitely not getting married."

 

Interviewer (to Chris and Jon): "Do you two still live together?"

Chris and Jon: "NO!!"

Chris: "That was a mistake wasn't it?"

Jon: "We definitely get on better apart."

Chris: "Yeah, just because you can share a stage, it doesn't mean you can share a bed."

 

Chris: "Cows have a hard time in Britain."

 

Chris: "Even Jonny, who's such a shy boy, has started swinging his hips."

 

Interviewer: "When your music comes on the radio, do you switch it off?"

Chris: "Always!! Except once when I was in trouble with my girlfriend and she made me sit and listen to it as a punishment."

 

Interviewer(backstage at Brits 2001): "So which award do you most want to win?"

Will: "An Oscar."

Chris (laughing): "I think he meant which Brit award, Will."

 

Interviewer: "Are kids on the cards?"

Chris: "I don't know, I might be infertile. I've got no idea."

 

Interviewer: "Last time I spoke to you, we were kinda talking about how we were dating, you and I, like I was your girlfriend."

Chris: "Uh-huh."

Interviewer: "We might have to break up, I keep seeing these pictures of you with someone else..."

Chris: "Oh, don't worry about it."

Interviewer: "Don't worry about it?"

Chris: "We're just friends. You and me are still on, big time."

Interviewer: "Oh, OK I just wanted to make sure."

Chris: "I don't call because my phone is broken in England."

Interviewer: "That's why you don't call? And then there was that blackout, I know you couldn't get through then..."

Chris: "Basically I collected all these e-mails that I'd written to you, these love letters and I thought I won't send them over time, I'll just write a hundred or so and then send them at once and I sent them the day of the blackout, sorry."

Interviewer: "Dammit!"

Chris: "There was a lot of poetry in there..."

Interviewer: "Really, you wanna tell me one?"

Chris: "Yeah, it goes like this: [clears throat] Julie... a flower, I can't remember [bursts out laughing] but it had flowers in it... it was rubbish."

 

(Word association with interviewer)

Interviewer: "Ocean..."

Chris: "...colour."

Interviewer: "Yellow..."

Chris: "...blue."

Interviewer: "Freedom..."

Chris: "...Travis."

Interviewer: "Sex..."

Chris: "...ugh.. I've run out of words."

 

Chris: "You're great, I think you're great 'cos you like our band. Which of course is the only credential for quality of person."

:lol: ;)

Chris always tells it how it is - bless him hehe x x :lol:

:lol: He sure does.

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