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We rely more on enthusiasm than actual skill. Whatever you do, do it enthusiastically and people will like it more.
Chris Martin
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Chris Martin
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: March 2
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Christopher Anthony John Martin
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When you're on your fifth album, you are going to be judged against all your previous work and expectations.
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Everything that's happening to you, is what's suppose to be happening to you. So just relax.
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Although it's painful at the time, most of the things that people have said about us negatively - some of them are true and you can work on them, and the ones that you don't agree with, you don't work on.
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Even when other people don’t expect a lot out of you,you have to take the initiative.
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The goal is to try and make the perfect song. Which of course will never happen.
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So I have probably 1,200 little bits of paper with notes, which when the Ambien really starts to kick in, don't really make much sense. Say what you like about prescription drugs, but they do help when you're sequencing a record.
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I get more people approaching me about how good I was in 'Napoleon Dynamite' than being in Coldplay.
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