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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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Brian McKnight
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: June 5
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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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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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When somebody shows up and they believe in you, it makes all the difference.
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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 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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Music used to be essential and meaningful, but now it's disposable.
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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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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 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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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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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 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'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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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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I'm creating music - it doesn't matter if anyone else likes it.
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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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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'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 decided I am not going to say things I do not mean anymore.
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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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