Chris Martin Quotes

To me the bottom line is: good music is good music.

I just want to make good music. That's it. That's what I care about.

I had a good guitar, and I was a young, young kid.

I think there was a lot competition in the rock scene.

Whoever hired me might've just heard 'Refugee.' Well, I'm not the secret to 'Refugee.' The secret to 'Refugee' is the song. But if somebody really good calls me up to play on something because they like the way I played on 'Refugee,' then I wind up playing on another really good song.

I didn't write any music at all, and then, I remember Jon Anderson being very insistent saying that there were two kinds of musicians: the ones who wrote music and the ones who didn't.

I'd always been on the giving end of music and creating.

There is two kinds of music, the good, and the bad. I play the good kind.

In the music business, we all do different things, but we sit there and admire other people who can write a song differently or sing differently. It's not so competitive.

I wrote music. I was in a hardcore band when I was 14, and I wasn't good enough to play anyone else's songs, so I had to write my own.

There's no field of music which doesn't have good ideas.

It's incredible how much beauty exists in the world of music and how many artists you can really inspire with your own work.

I'm a pretty bad troubadour. I'm more of a music fan who got away with making records.

I tend to write on an acoustic guitar or the piano. I have kind of a rule: if I can't sit down and play this and get the song over, I don't take it to the band, because most any good song, you can sit down and deliver it with a piano or a guitar.

I've been writing and composing songs since I was 5 years old.

There are more bad musicians than there is bad music.

I've always been insecure about my singing. That's why I've focused so much on my songwriting.

I'm dead serious about my craft and just really serious about making music in itself. I take pride in making songs and albums where no two songs sound alike. That's the challenge and that's what it's all about, to keep it original and fresh and funky.

I like people that can strap on a guitar and don't sweat the fact that you have to come up with a song in an hour. I want to work with someone who won't feel like they have to play along with Jason Molina. I want them to just have the confidence.

Yes, but the great thing about all the people - and I don't think there is any exception - who I've worked with is they've all been very, very talented musicians.

I think there's always been singers like that and i've done my fair share of cheese as well.

The apparatus has to serve our improbability and improvisation. Being good and playing the songs is not enough.

We are rich in the quantity of songs rather than in the quality. The singer has to go through hundreds of compositions before he finds one that really says something.

They can sonically sound like me, but nobody's ever gonna be able to write songs like T-Pain. There's only one of those.

I enjoy all aspects of singing and I'm luckily given the choice to be part of different styles of music.