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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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Brian McKnight
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: June 5
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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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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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I'm never satisfied with what I do.
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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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I was brought up to be a gentleman. That means you know how to walk, talk and dress the part.
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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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Everything I have now is so real, so vivid.
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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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Every song that I've done is me in one way or another.
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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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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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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 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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I hate the pigeonholing that's happened in the music business in the last 30 years.
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I just want people to take a step back, take a deep breath and actually look at something with a different perspective. But most people will never do that.
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I've been a jazz artist playing pop and R&B my entire career.
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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 listen to all kinds of songs. There's something to be learned from every type of music and from the one making it, whether it's pop or jazz or hip-hop.
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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'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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