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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'm creating music - it doesn't matter if anyone else likes it.
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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 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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I watch my contemporaries, and they love to live in the studio and I don't. I have a life. I treat it as a 9-to-5. I try to create something new every day, and then I get on with my life.
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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 was brought up to be a gentleman. That means you know how to walk, talk and dress the part.
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I decided I am not going to say things I do not mean anymore.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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