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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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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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I decided I am not going to say things I do not mean anymore.
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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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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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Everything I have now is so real, so vivid.
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I've been a jazz artist playing pop and R&B my entire career.
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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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Being a musician, you want to be able to do the hardest stuff there is. People would think it's classical, but in classical, it's all on the page and the difficulty is keeping up with the music.
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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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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 hate the pigeonholing that's happened in the music business in the last 30 years.
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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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Music used to be essential and meaningful, but now it's disposable.
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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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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 write about moments, and I don't make blanket statements about anything because no one has all the answers nobody's come up with a foolproof way to do anything when it comes to emotions.
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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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I was probably six years old when I first sang before an audience.
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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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