“
Life is beautiful in all its colors, even the darker ones, they’re here for a reason.
”
”
Chris Martin
“
Coldplay songs deliver an amorphous, irrefutable interpretation of how being in love is supposed to feel, and people find themselves wanting that feeling for real. They want men to adore them like Lloyd Dobler would, and they want women to think like Aimee Mann, and they expect all their arguments to sound like Sam Malone and Diane Chambers. They think everything will work out perfectly in the end (just like it did for Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones and Nick Hornby's Rob Fleming), and they don't stop believing because Journey's Steve Perry insists we should never do that.
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”
Chuck Klosterman (Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto)
“
Written up in marker on a factory sign:
I struggle with the feeling that my life isn't mine
”
”
Coldplay (Mylo Xyloto #2: Cover-Up)
“
You might be a big fish in a little pond,
Doesn't mean you've won
'Coz along may come a bigger one.
”
”
Coldplay (Coldplay - Viva La Vida)
“
We romanticize the past with our period dramas and glossy film adaptations. A bit like we do with nature. Nature is violent, unpredictable and unforgiving. Eat or be eaten. That's nature. However much Attenborough or Coldplay you wrap it up in.
”
”
C.J. Tudor (The Hiding Place)
“
I'd rather be a comma than a full stop.
”
”
Chris Martin
“
When you try your best but you don't succeed,When you get what you want but not what you need .... If you never try you'll never know just what you're worth
”
”
Coldplay
“
Coldplay’s ultimately show-stopping opus “Fix You” might never have seen the light of day had Chris given up and caved in when Guy politely asked of him one morning: “So, ‘tears stream down your face, and AAAAH.’ What’s that all about, then?
”
”
Matt McGinn (Roadie: My Life on the Road with Coldplay)
“
Have you ever shot anyone before?’ Rosie asks Steve, while snapping through Amy’s cable ties. ‘No,’ says Steve. ‘But the Coldplay T-shirt made it easier.
”
”
Richard Osman (We Solve Murders (We Solve Murders, #1))
“
I definitely believe in God. How can you look at anything and not be overwhelmed by the miraculousness of it?
”
”
Chris Martin
“
Bones, sinking like stones, all that we've fought for
Homes, places we've grown, all of us are done for
And we live in a beautiful world
Yeah we do, yeah we do
”
”
Coldplay
“
Life goes on
It gets so heavy
The wheel breaks the butterfly
Every tear, a waterfall
In the night, the stormy night
She closed her eyes
In the night, the stormy night
Away she'd fly.
And dreamed of paradise.
”
”
Coldplay
“
Every teardrop is a waterfall.
”
”
Coldplay
“
Indeed, thinking of the coffeehouse as a haven for intellectual discourse is difficult when the one in question operates thousands of clones, wants to sell you the latest Coldplay album, and serves five-dollar milkshakes for adults.
”
”
Taylor Clark (Starbucked: A Double Tall Tale of Caffeine, Commerce, and Culture)
“
I don't want prearranged shit. I want you to make it special for my girl. I don't want some shit you made in your spare time last night while you listened to Coldplay. I want you to put this together for her. She is special like that, got it?
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”
Scott Hildreth (Unstoppable (Fighter Erotic Romance, #2))
“
You know how there are a key few moments in your life that stand out, like, your first kiss, and the first time you realise your parents are just people too and hearing Coldplay’s “The Scientist” for the first time and falling over and really fucking up your knee, like your first hospital visit, all that shit—meeting Parks is one of them for me.
”
”
Jessa Hastings (Magnolia Parks (Magnolia Parks Universe, #1))
“
You just missed a perfectly good opportunity to toast an awful Coldplay T-shirt. If I ever spontaneously combust, I hope I’m holding a whole stack of their CDs.
”
”
Joe Hill (The Fireman)
“
Coldplay—“Yellow” Guns N’ Roses—“Sweet Child O’ Mine” Goo Goo Dolls—“Iris” The Fureys—“When You Were Sweet Sixteen” Howie Day—“Collide” The Offspring—“Want You Bad” Busted—“Fall at Your Feet” Aerosmith—“Crazy
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”
Chloe Walsh (Binding 13 (Boys of Tommen, #1))
“
and tell me you love me, come back and haunt me oh and I rush to the start..running in circles, chasing tails, and coming back as we are. Nobody said it was easy, it's such a shame for us to part.. no-one ever said it would be so hard, I'm going back to the start
”
”
Coldplay
“
Look at the stars
Look how they shine for you
And everything you do
They were all yellow
I came along
I wrote a song for you
And all the things you do
And it was called yellow.
”
”
Coldplay (Coldplay - Parachutes Piano, Vocal and Guitar Chords)
“
We don't tell anyone the darker side of things. We've been through all the breakups and addictions and all that. But we have a chemistry that no one else in the world has. So we don't mess with it." - Chris Martin
”
”
Chris Martin (See You Soon)
“
People moving all the time inside a perfectly straight line; Don't you wanna curve away?
”
”
Coldplay
“
The lyrics about trying to fix someone you love pull me back in time. Even back then he wanted to fix me, when I didn’t know I was broken. He’s still trying.
”
”
Alice Feeney (Sometimes I Lie)
“
You just missed a perfectly good opportunity to toast an awful Coldplay T-shirt. If I ever spontaneously combust, I hope I’m holding a whole stack of their CDs.” Harper
”
”
Joe Hill (The Fireman)
“
He said I'm gonna buy a gun and start a war, if you can tell me something worth fighting for. Oh and I'm gonna buy this place, that's what I said.
Blame it upon a rush of blood to the head
”
”
Chris Martin
“
TIL KINGDOM COME you'll be the one. FOR YOU theres NO MORE KEEPING MY FEET ON THE GROUND. My head is in the clouds NOW MY FEET WONT TOUCH THE GROUND. LIFE IS FOR LIVING and i cant live until i have stolen a spot in your heart. HURTS LIKE HEAVEN and feels like hell to know your in ANOTHERS ARMS. This is no PARADISE. DONT LET IT BREAK YOU HEART i tell my self. Your BEAUTIFUL WORDS always IN MY HEAD i cant stop my self. THINGS I DONT UNDERSTAND would be you and me. LOST in your X&Y. I feel like i was SWALLOWED IN THE SEA, LOST and unseen, not a WISPER or a weep. I cry in my sleep, EVERY TEARDROP IS A WATERFALL.
Should have seen the WARNING SIGNS, they were always there like a WISPER in my ear. Every time you say hello were back at SQUARE ONE, a smile my face. SUCH A RUSH i get when i talk to you. My heart beats as fast as a HIGH SPEED race. Every second i wait for your reply like CLOCK ticking by. DAYLIGHT nears as the SLEEPING SUN is UP IN FLAMES. What if its US AGAINST THE WORLD? What if HOW YOU SEE THE WORLD is how i see it too? WHAT IF?
”
”
Rhyan Roads
“
I think we still, you know, we like the same stuff and we're both..."
The look in his eyes stops me, like I was about to say "serial killers" or "Coldplay fans". Shit. Come on, try again. I can be articulate. Go.
”
”
Anna Breslaw (Scarlett Epstein Hates It Here)
“
I’ve just spent three hours learning the entire life of some girl named Kallie, a girl with an epileptic tongue who loves booze, Coldplay, and a gym-addicted frat boy named Wes. Okay, so maybe Francesca has a point. Maybe it’s time to quit the Internet.
”
”
Pamela Ribon (Going in Circles)
“
The song ends and tears spring to my eyes. I quickly scroll to another—“The Scientist” by Coldplay—one of Kate’s favorite bands. I know the track, but I’ve never really listened to the lyrics before. I close my eyes and let the words wash over and through me.
”
”
E.L. James (Fifty Shades Trilogy: Fifty Shades of Grey / Fifty Shades Darker / Fifty Shades Freed)
“
How do you feel about Coldplay, Bach, and Taylor Swift for an opening trio?” C’s thumbs tap away at the screen.
“Am I going through a 17th-century break-up with a beach?” Neo asks, monotonous.
“That’d make a cool music video, actually.” C looks up, considering it.
”
”
Lancali (I Fell in Love With Hope)
“
In February 2006 the store sold its one billionth song when Alex Ostrovsky, sixteen, of West Bloomfield, Michigan, bought Coldplay’s “Speed of Sound” and got a congratulatory call from Jobs, bestowing upon him ten iPods, an iMac, and a $10,000 music gift certificate. The
”
”
Walter Isaacson (Steve Jobs)
“
My Chemical Romance, “I Don’t Love You” New Order, “Bizarre Love Triangle” Coheed and Cambria, “The Afterman” U2, “Ordinary Love” Coheed and Cambria, “Pearl of the Stars” Tears for Fears, “Woman in Chains” (with Oleta Adams) U2, “Every Breaking Wave” The Arcadian Project, “Hey There, Pretty Girl” Joy Division, “Love Will Tear Us Apart” Everything But The Girl, “I Don’t Understand Anything” The Airborne Toxic Event, “The Fifth Day” Gnarls Barkley, “Smiley Faces” The Airborne Toxic Event, “This Is London” My Chemical Romance, “Planetary (GO!)” U2, “Sometimes You Can’t Make It on Your Own” The Airborne Toxic Event, “The Way Home” Coldplay, “Fix You” The Strokes, “Reptilia” Simple Minds, “When Two Worlds Collide” The Smashing Pumpkins, “1979” The Arcadian Project, “The Windmill” Leonard Cohen, “Anthem” My Chemical Romance, “The Only Hope for Me Is You” Heaven 17, “Let Me Go” (extended version) Our Last Night, “Skyfall” My Chemical Romance, “The Kids from Yesterday” The Airborne Toxic Event, “The Graveyard near the House” Green Day, “Troublemaker” James Taylor, “Carolina in My Mind” Simple Minds, “Waterfront” Muse, “Exogenesis: Symphony Part 3 (Redemption)” U2, “Kite” The Arcadian Project, “The Disappearance Symphony: One Last Question
”
”
Barbara Claypole White (The Perfect Son)
“
I use my mom’s shampoo sometimes,” I blurt out. “I know I shouldn’t. I know it’s lady shampoo. But it smells better than mine, and I think my hair might like it better, and – but that doesn’t change the fact that that stuff, that’s for chicks. And, that, that’s probably
gay, isn’t it? Like, at least a little.”
“I don’t know whether—”
“And I cried once listening to ‘The Scientist’ by Coldplay. I don’t know, I was in sort of a lousy mood anyway, but it’s not like that excuses that stuff. Like, that was gay, wasn’t it? Guys don’t just sit around and cry over Coldplay.”
“Howie—”
“And I loved Mamma Mia. Like, loved it. Amber made me watch it with her on TV once, and I didn’t want to, and she wound up thinking it was this sentimental piece of crap, but I loved it. It was all sunny and happy and there was all that blue sky and blue ocean, and everyone was just, like, so chill, all bouncing and singing and being so happy, and I just wanted to, I don’t know, live there or something. Jump right into the screen and sing
backup to Dancing Queen. That’s gay, right? That’s queeriest queerdom. There’s no way that’s not totally gay. It’s gay. It’s so gay. I’m … I …”
“If I may,” Arthur says.
I take a deep breath. “Yeah, okay.”
“I don’t like any of those things,” Arthur says, “and I am gay. So maybe you’re just
girly.”
That?
That’s his answer?
“I’m not girly,” I say, affronted.
“Just an observation,” Arthur replies innocently.
“You didn’t like Mamma Mia?” I ask, feeling like I just got kicked.
“I’m not even really sure what it is,” Arthur replies, frowning thoughtfully.
Useless bastard.
”
”
Hannah Johnson (Know Not Why (Know Not Why, #1))
“
She could hear Sarah’s laugh from the kitchen, even over Coldplay and Rihanna, who were now belting out ‘Princess of China’ from Matthew’s iPod.
”
”
Robert Galbraith (Lethal White (Cormoran Strike, #4))
“
Songwriting is a mix of fiction and myth. Things are very romanticised. A song is like a film in that you can say anything you want. So there are parts that are based on truth and there are also parts that just sound good or feel good. It’s a mixture of the two. It’s all imagery. It’s not strictly truth.
”
”
Martin Roach (Viva Coldplay: A Biography)
“
The subject matter of Coldplay songs is deeply intertwined with Chris’s frame of mind. He has admitted he needs to be slightly morose, maudlin even, to write well. He cannot see how he can write if he is in a serious and happily committed relationship.
”
”
Martin Roach (Viva Coldplay: A Biography)
“
In the Seventies, there was Queen’s ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’, in the Eighties there was Duran Duran’s ‘Rio’ and in the Nineties ‘Runaway Train’ by Soul Asylum. We’re Coldplay and this is ‘Yellow’.
”
”
Martin Roach (Viva Coldplay: A Biography)
“
Chris made the new album sound all the more enticing when he revealed to VH1 some of the personal events that had surrounded its writing (virtually all of which the band kept a closely guarded secret): “[It’s] born from all the places we’ve been and the things we’ve experienced. Some of our friends have died and some of us have fallen in love. Some of us have fallen out of love and some of us have been to Haiti and some us have been to Australia. Some of us have met Bono and some of us have met someone with nothing. It’s like a massive culture gun fired at our heads. All this stuff has been happening to us, and now we have the opportunity to put it into some songs.
”
”
Martin Roach (Viva Coldplay: A Biography)
“
On my floor, there were fifteen first years and ten sophomores. It was quickly discovered that most of the first years on my floor were still involved in high school relationships. It wasn't difficult to figure out who the ten were, as they (okay, by “they” I really mean “we” but I hate to admit to this type of behavior) often began sentences with the phrase, “My boyfriend/girlfriend . . .” As in “My boyfriend loves Coldplay, too!” Or “My boyfriend has a sweater like that, too!” Or “My boyfriend eats and sleeps and excretes waste, too!” Since no upperclassman would ever, ever, ever put a confining label like “boyfriend” or “girlfriend” on the person she/he was hooking up with on a semiregular basis, it was obvious that anyone making such a bold declaration of commitment was referring to a youthful union forged in the halls of her/his former high school. The
”
”
Megan McCafferty (Charmed Thirds (Jessica Darling, #3))
“
Luca leans forward, propping his elbows on the bar table, and I think he’s going to ask me something, maybe what some particularly nonsensical Coldplay lyrics mean: but instead he starts to speak in Italian, so smoothly, the words so soft and liquid, that I swiftly realize he’s quoting some lyrics. The words flow over me, winding around me like velvet:
“‘Ci sono trenta modi per salvare il mondo, ma uno solo perche il mondo salvi me--che io voglia star con te, e tu voglia star con me.’”
I gaze at him, and now I do feel hypnotized. I have no idea what he’s saying--he could be reading the phone book in Italian and I’d stare at him across the little bar table, unable to take my eyes from him.
“That is from a song by Jovanotti. Shall I translate for you?” he asks gently.
All at once, I panic. What if the words are so lovely I can’t bear them? It’s as if he’s casting a spell over me, and I need to break free before it settles so tightly around me that I’m completely in his power.
”
”
Lauren Henderson (Flirting in Italian (Flirting in Italian #1))
“
Coldplay’s Viva La Vida.
”
”
Amelia Hutchins (A Demon's Dark Embrace (The Elite Guards, #1))
“
Songs that felt like Wyatt: “Iris” by Goo Goo Dolls “A Murder of One” by Counting Crows “Take It Easy on Me” by Little River Band “Hold You in My Arms” by Ray LaMontagne “Wild Horses” by The Rolling Stones “Thinking Out Loud” by Ed Sheeran “Yellow” by Coldplay Songs that took me to the beach: “Watermelon Sugar” by Harry Styles “Sunshine on My Shoulders” by John Denver “Wouldn’t It Be Nice” by The Beach Boys Songs to make Sam cry: “Who Knew” by Pink “Wrecking Ball” by Miley Cyrus “1 Step Forward, 3 Steps Back” by Olivia Rodrigo “So Far Away” by Carole King “Romeo and Juliet” by Dire Straits “Stay” by Rihanna “Sam, I Am” by Missy McGee
”
”
Annabel Monaghan (Same Time Next Summer)
“
The Hardest Part was to bring the baby safe in the Train.
”
”
Petra Hermans
“
Adventure of a Lifetime” by some band called Coldplay comes on. Which is a very peculiar name to me. What does Coldplay mean?
”
”
Calia Read (Echoes of Time (Surviving Time #3))
“
Yellow"
Look at the stars
Look how they shine for you
And everything you do
Yeah, they were all yellow
I came along
I wrote a song for you
And all the things you do
And it was called "Yellow"
So then I took my turn
Oh what a thing to have done
And it was all yellow
Your skin
Oh yeah your skin and bones
Turn into something beautiful
Do you know
You know I love you so
You know I love you so
I swam across
I jumped across for you
Oh what a thing to do
'Cause you were all yellow
I drew a line
I drew a line for you
Oh what a thing to do
And it was all yellow
Your skin
Oh yeah your skin and bones
Turn into something beautiful
Do you know
For you I'd bleed myself dry
For you I'd bleed myself dry
It's true
Look how they shine for you
Look how they shine for you
Look how they shine for
Look how they shine for you
Look how they shine for you
Look how they shine
Look at the stars
Look how they shine for you
And all the things that you do
Coldplay Parachites (2000)
”
”
Coldplay (Coldplay - Parachutes Piano, Vocal and Guitar Chords)
“
Coldplay’s “Fix You” came on the radio like a ridiculous movie cliché, and I stared out the window trying to be strong and not succeeding.
”
”
Bethany Joy Lenz (Dinner for Vampires: Life on a Cult TV Show (While also in an Actual Cult!))
“
Si hay algo que no tolero es a esa gente que, cansada de golpear a las puertas del sistema sin lograr entrar en él, ya sea por incapacidad, dejadez o justicia pura, se se autoproclaman voceros del anti-sistema y no cejan en la crítica feroz basada en nimiedades, de quienes traspasamos los umbrales por lo que ellos nunca dejarán de suspirar.
Si hay algo que me da risa es el avasallamiento sin contenido intelectual válido. La retórica tomada como mera gimnasia o simple juego de niños.
Si hay algo que no acepto es que comparen a Coldplay con U2.
”
”
Rodrigo Fresán
“
The musical guest that week was Coldplay, and it
”
”
Amy Poehler (Yes Please)
“
Ele começou a música, e eu a reconheci imediatamente como Fix You, do Coldplay.
”
”
Anonymous
“
Said I can't go on, not in this way
I'm a dream, I die by light of day
Gonna hold up half the sky and say
Only I own me
I feel my heart beating
I feel my heart beneath my skin
Oh, I can feel my heart beating
'Cause you make me feel
Like I'm alive again
Alive again
Oh, you make me feel
Like I'm alive again
”
”
Coldplay
“
On the way to the tiny Los Pajaritos stadium (capacity just 9,025), Coldplay’s ‘Viva la Vida’ blared from the speakers on the team bus. That song, a favourite of Pep’s, would become the soundtrack to the rest of the season – the anthem for Guardiola’s era, even. When that song played, the players knew the moment had arrived. It was a warning. The call to action.
”
”
Guillem Balagué (Pep Guardiola: Another Way of Winning: The Biography)
“
He turns on the music and hums along, then sings along. Badly. Really, very badly. He’s goddamn awful, is what I’m saying, but somehow it’s also really charming. He keeps butchering Coldplay. I keep looking at him. And it hits me then—suddenly and loudly, in a way that is impossible to ignore—just how dangerous nice boys can be.
”
”
Briar Prescott (Just a Taste)
“
Where Do I Begin,” Shirley Bassey; “Swing Life Away,” Rise Against; “I’ve Got a Crush on You,” Frank Sinatra; “My Best Friend’s Girl,” The Cars; “Mr. Brightside,” The Killers; “What Sarah Said,” Death Cab for Cutie; “The Scientist,” Coldplay; “Everlong,” Foo Fighters; “Wild Horses,” The Sundays; “One Love,” U2; “Criminal,” Fiona Apple; “Bleeding Love,” Leona Lewis; “Again,” Janet Jackson; “I Think That She Knows,” Justin Timberlake; “Let’s Get it On,” Marvin Gaye; “Let’s Stay Together,” Al Green; “Save the Last Dance for Me,” The Drifters.
”
”
Penny Reid (Friends Without Benefits (Knitting in the City, #2))
“
Give me real, don't give me fake.
”
”
Coldplay (Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head (Rush of Blood to the Head Pvg))
“
Coldplay is a band for people who don’t like music,
”
”
Simon McCleave (The Solace Farm Killings (DI Ruth Hunter, #7))
“
Sikkel in Groningen, Piemel in Friesland, Worst in Rotterdam, Pik in de Kempen.
”
”
Petra Hermans (Voor een betere wereld)
“
In a book about the world
Called The Luminous Things
There are trees and flowers glowing
While Jizo Bodhisattva sings
”
”
Coldplay (Coldplay - Everyday Life Songbook)
“
I opened it and saw he was looking at dates for next year’s Coldplay tour. Huh. Well, at least he had good taste in music.
”
”
Natasha Boyd (Accidental Tryst (Charleston, #1))
“
He drove a gray Honda CR-V and ate six Wendy’s Jr. Bacon Cheeseburgers from the Drive-Thru Value Menu. He listened to a Spotify playlist of Ed Sheeran, Death Cab for Cutie, and Coldplay while driving exactly the speed limit with his fedora on the dashboard, hooked atop a plastic hat rack he’d purchased for $9.99 on Amazon.
”
”
Taylor Adams (The Last Word)
“
I could be you, you could be me
Two raindrops in the same sea
You could be me, I could be you
Two angles of the same view
And we share the same blood
”
”
Coldplay (Coldplay - Everyday Life Songbook)
“
Cilian shakes his head. "No, that's not why. I mean, maybe a little. I don't want anyone to get hurt. But we don't know anything about it."
"We know its a demon."
"Right, but it's wearing a fecking Coldplay shirt. How evil can something wearing a Coldplay shirt be?"
He has a point.
”
”
Kiersten White (Slayer (Slayer, #1))
“
If you never try, you'll never know.
”
”
Coldplay (Fix You)
“
16. Love will tear us apart (Joy Division) 15. Ain't no sunshine (Bill Withers) 14. Sound of silence (Simon and Garfunkel) 13. My way (Frank Sinatra) 12. All by myself (Eric Carmen) 11. Yesterday (The Beatles) 10. Without you (Harry Nilsson) 9. Seasons in the sun (Terry Jacks) 8. Fix You (Coldplay) 7. My heart will go on (Celine Dion) 6. Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen/Alexandra Burke/Jeff Buckley) 5. Nothing compares 2 U (Prince/Sinead O'Connor) 4. I will always love you (Whitney Houston)
”
”
Michael Hopkins (The Big Book of Interesting Stuff)
“
It’s not every daughter-in-law who will high-five you when you’ve shot a drug dealer in a Coldplay T-shirt, is it?
”
”
Richard Osman (We Solve Murders (We Solve Murders, #1))