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I hate the pigeonholing that's happened in the music business in the last 30 years.

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Brian McKnight
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: June 5
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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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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'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 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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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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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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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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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'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'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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Everything I have now is so real, so vivid.
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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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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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I grew up in a time where anything was possible.
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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 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 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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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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