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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.

Brian McKnight

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Brian McKnight
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: June 5
Actor
Composer
Film Producer
Guitarist
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Record Producer
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
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Television Producer
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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 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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I'm creating music - it doesn't matter if anyone else likes it.
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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'm never satisfied with what I do.
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I hate the pigeonholing that's happened in the music business in the last 30 years.
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Everything I have now is so real, so vivid.
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Every song that I've done is me in one way or another.
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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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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 grew up in a time where anything was possible.
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He knows I rip him off every day. He's the godfather for me. Nobody can say they aren't influenced by what Stevie Wonder has done.
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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 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 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 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 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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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've been a jazz artist playing pop and R&B my entire career.
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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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