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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.

Brian McKnight

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Brian McKnight
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: June 5
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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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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'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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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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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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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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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've been a jazz artist playing pop and R&B my entire career.
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I grew up in a time where anything was possible.
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Being a musician, you want to be able to do the hardest stuff there is. People would think it's classical, but in classical, it's all on the page and the difficulty is keeping up with the music.
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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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When somebody shows up and they believe in you, it makes all the difference.
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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 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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