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"English singer James Blunt's comments about wanting to take time away from songwriting sparked several \"James Blunt Quits Music Industry\" headlines \u2014 to many Twitter users' delight. \n\"Quit\" may be an overstatement, however, as Blunt only said, \"I just want to take some time out for myself,\" in an interview with The Daily Mail, but the article's headline uses the word \"retire.\"\nRegardless, people still snatched at the opportunity to post some humorous tweets about the situation: \n\nJames Blunt announced that he quits music business. We all gonna miss that one song, whatever the fucking title was..\n\u2014 Kristoffer Adibrata (@krisadibrata) October 22, 2012\n\n\nJames Blunt is calling it quits on the music making bizz. In more shocking news, James Blunt was still IN the music making bizz #whineyhole\n\u2014 CherrySue (@ItsCherrySue) October 22, 2012\n\n\nJames Blunt Quits Music Industry [News]: General Music News: \"4th most annoying\" singer calls it a day. bit.ly/Rp18aY\n\u2014 Ed Remington (@EdeRemington) October 22, 2012\n\n\nMaybe 2012 isn't the year of the apocalypse after all RT @nme James Blunt quits music industry nme.com/news/james-blu\u2026\n\u2014 ahampp (@ahampp) October 22, 2012\n\n\nJake Bugg goes straight in at number 1 and James Blunt quits music forever, all in the last 24 hours. Maybe we're not doomed after all..\n\u2014 Jack Dooley (@jackelus) October 22, 2012\n\n\nDoes good news come in 3's? 1. James Blunt quits music 2. Heli crash; all on board survive 3. The rest of my desk arrives tomorrow.\n\u2014 Andy Egginton (@AEgginton) October 22, 2012\n\n\nbest news I've heard all lifetime RT @markhillary: James Blunt quits the music business bit.ly/RgoRdL\n\u2014 Chris Atkins (@scatatkins) October 22, 2012\n\n\nJames Blunt quits the music industry. Gives me the courage to quit my job oh wait I am not rich and have to continue to do something I hate.\n\u2014 Josh McDonald (@JoshMcDonaldUSA) October 22, 2012\n\nGrammy-nominated Blunt's \"You're Beautiful\" from 2004's Back to Bedlam earned him global attention. \n\nSEE ALSO: Peter Gabriel Asks Facebook Fans to Recreate 'Sledgehammer'\nHe sometimes pokes fun at himself on social media. For example, his Twitter bio reads, \"I am a performing monkey,\" and he tweeted this quote last week: \n\n\"I'm pretty sure Adele and James Blunt were dumped by the same man.\"\n\u2014 James Blunt (@DirtyLilBlunt) October 15, 2012\n\nBlunt notes he's been spending \"a lot of time\" in his villa in Ibiza.\n\n\nPhoto from James Blunt's Facebook page\n      window._msla=window.loadScriptAsync||function(src,id){if(document.getElementById(id))return;var js=document.createElement('script');js.id=id;js.src=src;document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0].parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);};\n_msla(\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\",\"twitter_jssdk\");"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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