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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 hate the pigeonholing that's happened in the music business in the last 30 years.
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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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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'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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When somebody shows up and they believe in you, it makes all the difference.
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Every song that I've done is me in one way or another.
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I'm never satisfied with what I do.
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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 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've been a jazz artist playing pop and R&B my entire career.
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