James Blunt Quotes

• You can’t break my spirit, it’s my dreams you take.

  James Blunt

• Things take a long time, but when it’s right things move fast.

  James Blunt

• My life is brillant, My love is pure.

  James Blunt

• 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.

  James Blunt

• 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.

  James Blunt

• 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

• 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.’

  James Blunt

• If the Army helped towards my tuition fees I would then give them four years of my life.

  James Blunt

• 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

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

  James Blunt

• 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.

  James Blunt

• 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

• I guess if you’re stupid enough to join the army without thinking about getting shot at, then you really are a fool.

  James Blunt

• 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

• 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

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Birth:	22nd February, 1974
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Lyricist, Singer, Soldier

About

James Hillier Blount, better known by his stage name James Blunt was born in Tidworth, Wiltshire, England. He is an English singer-songwriter, guitarist and former army officer. He originally signed to EMI Music Publishing and is currently signed to Custard Records and Atlantic Records. His albums list shown below: Back to Bedlam, All the Lost Souls, Some Kind of Trouble, Moon Landing, and The Afterlove. He has written several songs include: "You're Beautiful"(with Sacha Skarbek, Amanda Ghost) and "Goodbye My Lover"(with Sacha Skarbek). He has received several awards, including two Brit Awards- winning Best British Male in 2006, two MTV Video Music Awards, two Ivor Novello Awards as well as receiving five Grammy Award nominations. He served under NATO in the Kosovo War in 1999. He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate for Music in 2016 by University of Bristol.

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