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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.

Brian McKnight

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Brian McKnight
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: June 5
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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 kind of hate the fact that people are always trying to put you into a category. I hate walls, and I hate boundaries. I don't like that. I listen to everything.
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Every song that I've done is me in one way or another.
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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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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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I am at my core a singer/songwriter a la James Taylor or a la Billy Joel. It's not that I don't want to work with people, but I do just love doing my own thing.
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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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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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As I've gotten older, now I've really got to back that up with record sales. Anytime showed me that I could still have some of those elements I wanted, but you still have to come with hit after hit after hit.
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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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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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Everything I have now is so real, so vivid.
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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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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 was probably six years old when I first sang before an audience.
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I grew up in a time where anything was possible.
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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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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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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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