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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.

Brian McKnight

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Brian McKnight
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: June 5
Actor
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Film Producer
Guitarist
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Record Producer
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
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Television Producer
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Buffalo
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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 grew up in a time where anything was possible.
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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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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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Everything I have now is so real, so vivid.
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I used to play pianos in bars. You know in hotels, you'd see guys playing piano with a snifter? That was me, with a painted-on mustache. I was about 15.
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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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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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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 hate the pigeonholing that's happened in the music business in the last 30 years.
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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.
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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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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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I've been a jazz artist playing pop and R&B my entire career.
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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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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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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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Every song that I've done is me in one way or another.
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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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