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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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Brian McKnight
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: June 5
Actor
Composer
Film Producer
Guitarist
Pianist
Record Producer
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Songwriter
Television Producer
Trumpeter
Buffalo
New York
Entire
Journey
Fans
Best
World
Stayed
Grown

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When somebody shows up and they believe in you, it makes all the difference.
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Music used to be essential and meaningful, but now it's disposable.
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Every little kid that steps on the court or the field has aspirations to go pro. I think being a pro basketball player is the best job. The thing I had to realize was that I can't do every dream that I have.
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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 was probably six years old when I first sang before an audience.
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I'm creating music - it doesn't matter if anyone else likes it.
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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'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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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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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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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'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 hope at some point in my career when my name is mentioned, someone will say Oh yeah he has a good song! I'd be happy with that.
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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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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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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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Everything I have now is so real, so vivid.
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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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For me able to do the records I want to do and not have to worry about this producer or that producer or that trend, I'm not really interested in that.
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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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