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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.

Brian McKnight

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Brian McKnight
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: June 5
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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'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 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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I watch my contemporaries, and they love to live in the studio and I don't. I have a life. I treat it as a 9-to-5. I try to create something new every day, and then I get on with my life.
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I've worked with jazz artists, country artists, classical artists, pop artists. I never wanted there to be categories, because when I was a kid there weren't.
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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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When it's your chance to step up to the plate, just hit it out of the park, and everybody will forget about everything that came before.
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Back in college, when I got kicked out of school, I was still in school, I'd just written the song that got me my record deal. If I hadn't gotten kicked out of school I wouldn't be where I am now. Three months after that, I got my record deal and the rest is history.
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I grew up in a time where anything was possible.
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I hate the pigeonholing that's happened in the music business in the last 30 years.
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I was probably six years old when I first sang before an audience.
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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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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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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'm never satisfied with what I do.
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I've been a jazz artist playing pop and R&B my entire career.
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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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I went back and listened to the first three albums I made and tried to figure out what was special about them, why people keep going back to them. I think it was because I didn't know what I was doing. I had no idea if they were going to play it on the radio or anything. All I did was write songs, so that's what I got back to.
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The hardest thing to do in this business is to still be around. When music changes, when labels' resources have dried up, it becomes harder and harder to continue to make a living at this.
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I started as a writer and when I sent my demos out everyone wanted to know who was singing and if that person wanted a record deal.
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