Top 70 Quotes About James Blunt
#1. My relief dissipates as James Blunt's yowling voice is overwhelmed by the scream of locking brakes:eieeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE ...
My head lurches into darkness.
#2. Jason Mraz, and the new James Blunt song is the worst thing that has ever been created on the face of the earth.
#3. When I did '1,2,3,4' on 'Sesame Street' they'd rewritten the song and made it about counting. At first, I balked. I was like, 'Counting to four? That's where we're going with this?' Then they sent me appearances by other people like James Blunt doing 'You're Beautiful' as 'My Triangle.'
#4. You've been back from Vegas for a week and you've uttered like four words since then."
I furrowed my brows. "Not true."
"Asking Siri to play James Blunt doesn't count.
#5. I'm pretty sure Adele and James Blunt were dumped by the same man.
#6. I feel sorry for James Blunt, he has to wake up every morning and think 'Oh my God, I'm James Blunt, what have I done?'
#7. My grandparents live in Cley, and my dad now has the windmill which is a guest house. So I've spent much time up there, but a lot of it was at school as well, and my dad was sent abroad so often as well with the army.
#8. Are we all just satellites?
#9. It's always nice to be able to capture your life's experiences in a song and hold the emotion in that way.
#10. Tracer lighting up the sky.
It's another families' turn to die.
A child afraid to even cry out says,
He has been here.
And I see no bravery,
No bravery in your eyes anymore.
Only sadness.
#11. I always wanted to be a Muppet. So when 'Sesame Street' approached me to guest star, I thought: 'I'm going to be on this!' It's pretty incredible stuff.
#12. I don't think I picked up the guitar in the first place as a way of getting women. There are probably better ways of doing it.
#13. My life is brillant, My love is pure.
#14. School was pretty good about letting me take up music and that's where I had my first musical ideas and first said, 'Yeah, I'm going to be a musician.' I just had to do a quick stop gap in the army first.
#15. I relax by catching up with my friends and family. When I am at home in Ibiza, I find the contrast of living on a divided island relaxing - with beauty and tranquillity in the north and a sense of fun, shallowness and celebration in the south.
#16. Like any parents, mine wanted me to have a secure job with a regular wage and career prospects. And the one job my father knew of, that he'd had experience of himself, was the army, so he could help me in that direction.
#17. I try to tell one lie in every interview. It keeps people I know amused when they read the article.
#18. Ladies love a soppy lyric. There's a real winner in 'Carry You Home.'
#19. I never really set out to do anything in the charts with music. It came as a total surprise that I did, and it's fun.
#20. Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.
#21. I always wanted to be a Muppet.
#22. I have fun with it and I am honest and open about the way I lead my life and don't mislead anyone. I've had the time of my life and thank God for that, it would be such a waste otherwise.
#23. As a singer-songwriter who gets up on stage and sings about those things that make me vulnerable is an amazing experience. You get up on stage and effectively take your clothes off in front of thousands of people.
#24. On the song 'Dangerous,' it feels like a teenager picking up a new instrument and writing something with all of that naive excitement.
#25. I'm screaming at the top of my voice
#26. This will be my first visit [to Israel]. I've heard it's a special place, that Tel Aviv is exciting and that the atmosphere is excellent ... I hope I'll have time to visit the holy places.
#27. Being British, I don't really have a way of expressing myself in conversation. Music transcends language.
#28. 'Top Gear' changed people's perceptions of me. I've had much more positive responses from my TV appearances than written articles. And I have the weirdest voice.
#29. Wish I had known what seemed so strong has been and gone.
#30. I know I'm a pop star. But sometime I'd like to be a rock star.
#31. In a way song writing can almost be detrimental, because suddenly you find an outlet that is a kind of cheating. You don't need to have direct communication. You can say, 'I can't describe it to you, but I will record it and send it to you.'
#32. Honestly if men are given a choice, we'll choose everything.
#33. You light the Spark in my Bonfire Heart.
#34. Things take a long time, but when it's right things move fast.
#35. If the Army helped towards my tuition fees I would then give them four years of my life.
#36. I am not into fashion. I just like being able to buy my mates dinner.
#37. I write, "Give me reason but don't give me choice, because I'll make the same mistake again." I think that's what most men want to be told.
#38. You have to be blunt to make a point
#39. To come home and share life experiences with friends is the key to what makes me feel really alive.
#40. Absolutely, it's a really weird stage because at the minute, I can walk down the street and be unrecognised, lead a normal life, but my label and everybody is warning me that will be changing and I'm in for a rollercoaster ride.
#41. Being sent away to boarding school at seven is as great an inspiration as any songwriter could have - to be taken away from one's family and locked away for 10 years. It does create an incredible intensity of emotion.
#42. Every time I do an interview, it's like serious therapy. But real therapy isn't something that I'd ever have. I feel fortunate that mentally everything is functioning well.
#43. I don't agree with superstitious routines, but there are a couple of things I'll always do before performing. I'll get together with the band and chill out, and then, just before I go on stage, I'll always check my flies.
#44. My dad was in the Army. The Army's not great pay, but, you know, we moved from Army patch to Army patch wherever that was. The Army also contributed to sending me off to boarding school.
#45. War is devastating, and it leaves its scars for generations.
#46. It may be over but it won't stop there, I am here for you if you'd only care
#47. It's taken a long time but eventually when I had the songs in place and demos right and I found myself a manager, that's when everything started happening quickly but I think that's always the way it is.
#48. We see differences in people and seem to be afraid of people. The black or white or gay or straight - I don't necessarily look for differences but for similarities. We need to be looking out for each other.
#49. The showbiz world has to be manipulated to make it more interesting because most people's lives are boring.
#50. If you get up on stage and brag, I don't think that's very brave. It's braver to get up and take your clothes off. And I do that every night.
#51. Maybe I should try singing like a man.
#52. You can't break my spirit, it's my dreams you take.
#53. I think sensitive is the wrong description of me. I'm British, actually, so quite bad at expressing myself in conversation, as any ex-girlfriend will tell you. I'm probably emotionally stunted.
#54. I guess if you're stupid enough to join the army without thinking about getting shot at, then you really are a fool.
#55. No matter whether you are black or white, man or woman, gay or straight, Christian, Muslim, or Jew, we all share the same emotions, the same human condition.
#56. I try to read everything that I can about myself because Saddam Hussein didn't read his reviews and he thought he was winning!
#57. Every person I've met has influenced my songs.
#58. Praying without faith is like trying to cut with a blunt knife - much labor expended to little purpose.
#59. To get up on stage with a band is fantastic. To play songs to an audience is mindblowing.
#60. I am very happy to say I look just like my dad. But mothers always think their children are prettier than they really are, and mine has always told me I look like Tom Cruise.
#61. I like 'Goodbye My Lover' because it's a really personal song and I recorded it in my landlady's bathroom in Los Angeles. She had a piano in there and for me listening back to it, it actually sounds like the voice I hear in my head. It's so close to what I can imagine.
#62. The song is about love, life, fear and hope ... and more than anything, you ... and me ...
#63. I sing like a girl.
#64. I think having toured the world and seeing many places, I've just been blown away by how we've really scarred our home. I'm as guilty as the next person if not more so. I travel a lot. The damage we do to our planet is huge.
#65. My mum was very good at making me take up musical instruments, so although there was no popular music she made me learn the recorder when I was three, the violin when I was five and the piano when I was seven. I took up the guitar myself when I was 14.
#66. I'm quite British in the sense of not expressing my emotions much. I save it for my songs. If you ask about a death in the family, or a lover, I will not be emotional. I'd probably answer with a smile. Because that's what we British blokes do.
#67. I think the things that make me excited are only best when they're shared with people.
#68. I have been told by people that I should not be seen clubbing with good-looking women, but I can't see why not. Why be a pop star otherwise?
#69. Will you be my shoulder when I'm gray and older? Promise me tomorrow starts with you. Getting high, running wild among the stars above. Sometimes it's hard to believe you remember me.
#70. Time, though infinite, is paradoxically also short, and, to be blunt, getting shorter.
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