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The guy comes up to the plate, there's always a chance where he can get a grand slam and everybody forgets about all the times he missed.

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Brian McKnight
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: June 5
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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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You'd hear Willie Nelson, then Earth, Wind & Fire, then Chicago, then Billy Joel on the same radio station. Nowadays, everything is compartmentalized.
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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 grew up in a time where anything was possible.
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I was probably six years old when I first sang before an audience.
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I'm never satisfied with what I do.
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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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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.
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I'm not thinking about what needs to be on the radio. I'm not thinking about anything other than - I'm just going to let this music come out of me and not have any sort of preconceived notion of what I should do. I'm just going to do it.
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