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He knows I rip him off every day. He's the godfather for me. Nobody can say they aren't influenced by what Stevie Wonder has done.

Brian McKnight

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Brian McKnight
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: June 5
Actor
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I listen to all kinds of songs. There's something to be learned from every type of music and from the one making it, whether it's pop or jazz or hip-hop.
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You know, most of my career I wrote about moments in time. All of us have felt one thing or another and it didn't last very long. Now I'm drawing from real experience. It's a huge difference.
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I'm not like a legend that - so I'm sort of in the middle in this sort of gray area where, you know, I'm creating music and I'm not saying there isn't an audience because there is because all of those people go out and spend $80 to $150 on a concert ticket.
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I'm creating music - it doesn't matter if anyone else likes it.
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I'll always write music. Whether I release a record, whether I let the public hear it or not, I'm always writing music.
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I was brought up to be a gentleman. That means you know how to walk, talk and dress the part.
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Every little kid that steps on the court or the field has aspirations to go pro. I think being a pro basketball player is the best job. The thing I had to realize was that I can't do every dream that I have.
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For me able to do the records I want to do and not have to worry about this producer or that producer or that trend, I'm not really interested in that.
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I kinda went back to that period between '88 and '94 where I felt like I was the most creative, without being hindered by powers that be. I was no longer going to try to hinder myself to what I thought was going to be on the radio.
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Stevie didn't use the technology to drive the song. He used it to enhance. I use the tools to further my work, I don't use my work to further the tools.
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I used to play pianos in bars. You know in hotels, you'd see guys playing piano with a snifter? That was me, with a painted-on mustache. I was about 15.
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My fans are the best in the world! They've grown up with me and stayed with me through this entire journey.
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I hope at some point in my career when my name is mentioned, someone will say Oh yeah he has a good song! I'd be happy with that.
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I am a writer - that is what I am before being a performer or musician. I love waking up in the morning and then going to sleep that night with something that did not exist.
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I hate the pigeonholing that's happened in the music business in the last 30 years.
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By 17, I had a whole band that would go in and play. It was called Spontaneous Inventions, after a Bobby McFerrin album.
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I decided I am not going to say things I do not mean anymore.
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Everything I have now is so real, so vivid.
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There's only one thing that everyone in this world has in common: whether you want to love somebody and you want to be loved in return.
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I just want people to take a step back, take a deep breath and actually look at something with a different perspective. But most people will never do that.
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