Top 40 James Blunt Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I am a dreamer but when I wake, you can’t break my spirit, it’s my dreams you take.”

— James Blunt

2. “My life is brillant, My love is pure.”

— James Blunt

3. “I always wanted to be a Muppet.”

— James Blunt

4. “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.”

— James Blunt

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

— James Blunt

6. “I’m screaming at the top of my voice.”

— James Blunt

7. “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.”

— James Blunt

8. “To come home and share life experiences with friends is the key to what makes me feel really alive.”

— James Blunt

9. “I write songs about my own experiences. You can’t lie to yourself. You can’t pose to yourself.”

— James Blunt

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

— James Blunt

11. “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

12. “It may be over but it won’t stop there, I am here for you if you’d only care.”

— James Blunt

13. “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.”

— James Blunt

14. “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

15. “Mothers always think their children are prettier than they really are, and mine has always told me I look like Tom Cruise.”

— James Blunt

16. “I used to have an eBay addiction. I was really good at selling stuff. My sister needed to get to a funeral in Ireland – the airlines were on strike – so I listed her on eBay: damsel in distress. Guys were outbidding guys to be the hero and help her. A guy who owned a helicopter won.”

— James Blunt

17. “Wish I had known what seemed so strong has been and gone.”

— James Blunt

18. “War is devastating, and it leaves its scars for generations.”

— James Blunt

19. “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

20. “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.”

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21. “The showbiz world has to be manipulated to make it more interesting because most people’s lives are boring.”

— James Blunt

22. “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

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

— James Blunt

24. “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

25. “I know I’m a pop star. But sometime I’d like to be a rock star.”

— James Blunt

26. “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.”

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

— James Blunt

28. “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

29. “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

30. “On the song ‘Dangerous,’ it feels like a teenager picking up a new instrument and writing something with all of that naive excitement.”

— James Blunt

31. “I think the things that make me excited are only best when they’re shared with people.”

— James Blunt

32. “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

33. “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

34. “Every person I’ve met has influenced my songs.”

— James Blunt

35. “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

36. “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

37. “Maybe I should try singing like a man.”

— James Blunt

38. “I’m pretty sure Adele and James Blunt were dumped by the same man.”

— James Blunt

39. “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.”

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40. “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.”

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41. “Being British, I don’t really have a way of expressing myself in conversation. Music transcends language.”

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42. “I try to read everything that I can about myself because Saddam Hussein didn’t read his reviews and he thought he was winning!”

— James Blunt

43. “Honestly if men are given a choice, we’ll choose everything.”

— James Blunt

44. “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

45. “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.”

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46. “To get up on stage with a band is fantastic. To play songs to an audience is mindblowing.”

— James Blunt