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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.

Brian McKnight

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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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I'm never satisfied with what I do.
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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 was probably six years old when I first sang before an audience.
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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've been a jazz artist playing pop and R&B my entire career.
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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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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'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've always been serious about music. After you've done it for so many years, you get back to the basics.
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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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Every song that I've done is me in one way or another.
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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 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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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 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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Music used to be essential and meaningful, but now it's disposable.
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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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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 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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