Chris Martin Quotes

I'm not interested in disposable music.

Every generation of rock musician will understand that we wouldn't be anywhere without the support of teenagers buying the records.

Music is the one part of the entertainment business where you can't fool anybody into buying a record.

It's pretty cool that people will pay for something even though they don't have to. It's totally different now to back in the day. Now you're paying for a record because you believe in the band. In the future that will be the only time people will pay for albums, because there's some kind of connection.

Obviously, it's great to know that your music is being listened to.

It's important for country fans to know that I'm not just trying to come in and take their money for a CD.

All of the sudden the audiences started getting younger and the spread of the attendance was really wide. I think it's as a result of the records selling more that they started following our careers.

If people had good albums, they'd be buying albums. But people are buying singles because they only have good songs.

D.C. is one my largest audiences. They buy tons of records of mine in Washington, D.C.

I picked and co-wrote the songs that if I was a guy who would be spending my hard-earned money buying an album I would want to hear.

People are used to seeing kids jump around. You know, the target audience, the audience that's spending money on music, like rock and hip-hop - they're used to seeing people get really physically involved in their music.

Rock and roll music - people want records. For me, it's the whole thing - the package. I don't get satisfaction from buying an MP3.

The iPod has taken away the whole platinum record sales prospect. Sincerity and specificity are going to be the hot commodities in music. Everybody can have anything that they want, so now it gets into what specifically you have to give.

As long as someone wants to hear my music, I don't care if it's a ringtone or the album or whatever.

I'm one of those firm believers that good music will prevail.

No one really buys records anymore. You can look at sales and do that math real quick. Unfortunately, it's fast food in the music industry. People don't ingest full records anymore.

The bottom line is fans just want to hear a good song. Some people will look underneath to see who wrote it, but they just want to hear a good song. And if they don't hear it, they're not going to buy it just because you wrote it.

It's a sad state when more people retweet than buy records.

A lot of people do talk about the demise of the album, but I still believe that if an artist tries hard to make a great album, people will buy it and listen to it as an album, rather than just a collection of random songs.

Once you get to 22 or 23, you're already old school. It's the bubblegum ones that buy records, have fun, party. You get older, you get sophisticated, and you don't go buy no records too much.

Music has always been and will always be a strong gateway to connect with consumers in an emotional hot state.

Mick Jagger's fans bought records with their allowances. Sinatra's people bought them out of wages.

The great thing about albums is it gives you a lot of choices, and we can all say that the album business is dead, but watch Taylor Swift. I don't think it's dead. I just think we've got to hit on the energies that make people want to collect albums.

I want people to really care when I release an album.

So if radio flops, and MTV flops and everything flops, it doesn't matter, as long as we're still playing and kids are coming to our shows.