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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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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'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 was probably six years old when I first sang before an audience.
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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 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 used to play pianos in bars. You know in hotels, you'd see guys playing piano with a snifter? That was me, with a painted-on mustache. I was about 15.
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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 went back and listened to the first three albums I made and tried to figure out what was special about them, why people keep going back to them. I think it was because I didn't know what I was doing. I had no idea if they were going to play it on the radio or anything. All I did was write songs, so that's what I got back to.
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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 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'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 grew up in a time where anything was possible.
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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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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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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'm never satisfied with what I do.
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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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I'm not like a legend that - so I'm sort of in the middle in this sort of gray area where, you know, I'm creating music and I'm not saying there isn't an audience because there is because all of those people go out and spend $80 to $150 on a concert ticket.
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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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