- Awards are essentially nonsense, but we're all going to die when George Bush (George W. Bush) has his way - it's good to go out with a bang.
- People like Richard Ashcroft and Morrissey (Morrissey) are brilliant but when there's a band there's a little bit of spark there; a bit of tension maybe that makes it work.
- It's hard for us sometimes because we are English and we do not like to admit that we think we are great.
- [on EMI] Deadlines mean nothing to us. We'll sink the whole company if we have to.
- I think shareholders are the great evil of this modern world.
- When I'm 40, too old to be a rock star, I plan to go back to college to study classical music.
- We want to make something that moves us when we hear it. Because after all the hype and awards and whatever, that's all music is.
- You can try to be catchy without being slick, poppy without being pop, and you can be uplifting without being pompous. Because we're sometimes playing quieter stuff, it's hard to sound like we're trying to change things, but we wanted to be a reaction against soulless rubbish.
- We're one of the world's worst but most enthusiastic plagiarists as a band. We'll try and copy anything but tends to fail so we come up with something that's a bit...sounds like us, only through trying to sound like somebody else.
- [on a-ha] Unbelievable songwriting. One of the first bands I loved.
- [inducting Peter Gabriel into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame] And Phil The Collins said unto him, "Who are you, oh angel?" And the angel replied, "I am Gabriel." ... "Ye shall be the singer of Genesis now." And the Phil that was called Collins was awestruck in the presence of the angel and replied, "How can this be, oh angel? I am but a humble drummer. I can't dance. I can't talk. The only thing about me is the way I walk."
- And Guy (Berryman) and Will (Champion) were having a cigarette outside... each. They don't share anymore, 'coz we've got more money.
- I would still give my left ball to write anything as good as OK Computer.
- Whatever you do, do it enthusiastically and people will love it more.
- I am actually already in one of the best bands in the world.
- Coldplay is for people with great taste, intelligence, incredible good looking-ness, 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. 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.
- If you're here for David Beckham you are 24 hours early, but there is always our handsome bass player, Guy.
- If you don't like Coldplay, now is the time to leave the planet.
- 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.
- [This is] Guy's area, where he stands and looks handsome. And this is Jonny's area, where he stands and looks at Guy.
- [he is asked what makes Jonny Buckland such an amazing bandmate] Bedmate?
- I understand women, of course. I am a seducer.
- I'd think: "Gosh, I'm just some public school boy with my house colours. I've got a degree. I'm from a middle-class family in Devon. I've got no story. We're just a bunch of students. I don't drink, I don't take drugs, I don't smoke. I can't be compared with Liam Gallagher or The Sex Pistols, or anyone real".
- [2012] I know you really wanted One Direction but it's way past their bedtime. So you get one quarter of Coldplay.
- [from Coldplay's "The Nappies" comedy song] There is shit going down that you can't disguise when your boobs gone up ten times in size, your cups gone up from an A to D, it's bad for you but it's fun for me.
- [Is Guy very hairy?] Hairy? No. I think you mean handsome.
- The song [Yellow] had the word 'stars' and that seemed like a word you should sing in a Neil Young voice.
- ["Speed of Sound"] That's a song where we were listening to a lot of Kate Bush last summer, and we wanted a song which had a lot of tom-toms in it. I just had my daughter up also, and was kind of feeling in a sense of awe and wonderment, so the song is kind of a Kate Bush song about miracles.
- One time someone had some skunk, and I was really gonna make an effort to get stoned because I was sick of what everyone was saying about it. It didn't do anything. Y'know, chocolate does things for me that it doesn't do for anyone else.
- [2005] [What album have you listened to the most this year?] Arcade Fire's Funeral. I absolutely love them. Sometimes it's good to have someone coming up behind you as well as someone ahead. It's fine to have my musical Mount Rushmore, but we've gotta be good because of upstarts like Arcade Fire.
- I don't care what anyone else does - if you wanna get up in the morning, drop an E and do some stem-cell research, that's amazing. Personally, weed really does nothing for me.
- What was I like as a kid? The same as I am now, just smaller with a higher voice.
- [2001] Somebody rang me up the other day and said Yellow was on a karaoke machine. That made me genuinely excited. It's got a nice beat.
- She [Frida Kahlo] went through a lot of pain [enduring polio, a broken spine, and a decade of chronic pain], of course, and then she started a big painting in her house that said 'Viva la Vida', I just loved the boldness of it.
- One day I was watching Bill O'Reilly, and I was like, 'I know how to finish that song [Violet Hill]'. My best friend, Tim ... was having trouble with his boss, and it made me think that so many people spend their lives being told what to do by people that they just don't like. So it was that idea, and watching Bill O'Reilly, and all these words just came out.
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