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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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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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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 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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Everything I have now is so real, so vivid.
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I'm not thinking about what needs to be on the radio. I'm not thinking about anything other than - I'm just going to let this music come out of me and not have any sort of preconceived notion of what I should do. I'm just going to do it.
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I decided I am not going to say things I do not mean anymore.
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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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