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I was brought up to be a gentleman. That means you know how to walk, talk and dress the part.
Brian McKnight
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Brian McKnight
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: June 5
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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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Music used to be essential and meaningful, but now it's disposable.
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I've been a jazz artist playing pop and R&B my entire career.
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Everything I have now is so real, so vivid.
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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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I decided I am not going to say things I do not mean anymore.
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I'm creating music - it doesn't matter if anyone else likes it.
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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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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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The hardest thing to do in this business is to still be around. When music changes, when labels' resources have dried up, it becomes harder and harder to continue to make a living at this.
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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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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 write about moments, and I don't make blanket statements about anything because no one has all the answers nobody's come up with a foolproof way to do anything when it comes to emotions.
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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 hate the pigeonholing that's happened in the music business in the last 30 years.
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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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When somebody shows up and they believe in you, it makes all the difference.
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