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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.
Brian McKnight
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Brian McKnight
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: June 5
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I kinda went back to that period between '88 and '94 where I felt like I was the most creative, without being hindered by powers that be. I was no longer going to try to hinder myself to what I thought was going to be on the radio.
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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 been a jazz artist playing pop and R&B my entire career.
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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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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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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 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'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 brought up to be a gentleman. That means you know how to walk, talk and dress the part.
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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 grew up in a time where anything was possible.
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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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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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When somebody shows up and they believe in you, it makes all the difference.
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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'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 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 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 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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