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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.

Brian McKnight

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Brian McKnight
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: June 5
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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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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 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'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 been a jazz artist playing pop and R&B my entire career.
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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'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 was probably six years old when I first sang before an audience.
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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'm never satisfied with what I do.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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The guy comes up to the plate, there's always a chance where he can get a grand slam and everybody forgets about all the times he missed.
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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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