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Music used to be essential and meaningful, but now it's disposable.
Brian McKnight
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Brian McKnight
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: June 5
Actor
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I grew up in a time where anything was possible.
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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 been a jazz artist playing pop and R&B my entire career.
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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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