James Blunt Quotes - Page 2

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• 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.

  James Blunt

  Fun, Surprise

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• I think the things that make me excited are only best when they're shared with people.

  James Blunt

  Thinking, People, Excited

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. 2013.

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• War is devastating, and it leaves its scars for generations.

  James Blunt

  War, Generations, Scar

  "Some Kind of Trouble and More". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 17, 2011.

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• Every person I've met has influenced my songs.

  James Blunt

  Song, Mets, Persons

  "He Writes the Songs You Love". Interview with Carole Radziwill, www.glamour.com. September 30, 2007.

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• My parents are still together. I have two sisters. I travel the world and they are the people I speak to.

  James Blunt

  Two, People, Parent

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. 2013.

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• I try to tell one lie in every interview. It keeps people I know amused when they read the article.

  James Blunt

  Lying, People, Trying

  "This much I know" by Johnny Davis, www.theguardian.com. March 15, 2008.

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• It's always nice to be able to capture your life's experiences in a song and hold the emotion in that way.

  James Blunt

  Song, Nice, Able

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I know I'm a pop star. But sometime I'd like to be a rock star.

  James Blunt

  Stars, Rocks, Blunt

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have friends who were friends of mine before I did music and they are my friends now, and we share life experiences. It's no fun unless you're sharing with people, looking out for them as they are looking out for you.

  James Blunt

  Fun, People, Life Experience

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. 2013.

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• 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.

  James Blunt

  Jobs, Father, Army

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• 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.

  James Blunt

  Gay, White, Differences

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. 2013.

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• 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.

  James Blunt

  Israel, Atmosphere, Special

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• 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.

  James Blunt

  Taken, Inspiration, School

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• 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.

  James Blunt

  Stupid, Labels, Warning

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• 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.

  James Blunt

  Clothes, People, Singers

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. 2013.

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• 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.

  James Blunt

  Thinking, Night, Clothes

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. 2013.

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• I don't know how to write without thinking what people would want. You don't know whether they want you to be black or white, so you kind of get a gray, something in the middle.

  James Blunt

  Writing, Thinking, White

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. 2013.

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• 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?

  James Blunt

  Stars, People, Why Not

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• 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.

  James Blunt

  Girlfriend, Thinking, Sensitive

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I write songs about my own experiences. You can't lie to yourself. You can't pose to yourself.

  James Blunt

  Song, Lying, Writing

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. 2013.

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• Ladies love a soppy lyric. There's a real winner in 'Carry You Home'.

  James Blunt

  Real, Home, Winner

  "This much I know" by Johnny Davis, www.theguardian.com. March 15, 2008.

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• 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.

  James Blunt

  Real, Interviews, Serious

  "My body and soul". www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2008.

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• 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.

  James Blunt

  Stars, Guests, Stuff

  "This much I know" by Johnny Davis, www.theguardian.com. March 15, 2008.

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• Sometimes, reading my own media, the negativity can upset me, but I just deal with things on a positive basis. I mean, I have up to 20,000 people singing my words back to me on a nightly basis - they share my hopes and fears, and they relate to my own life experiences. Life can be pretty isolating, but that connection is always amazing.

  James Blunt

  Reading, Mean, Media

  "My body and soul". www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2008.

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• 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.

  James Blunt

  Thinking, Guitar, Way

  "Sweet Baby James". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. June 27, 2006.

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