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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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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 was probably six years old when I first sang before an audience.
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I decided I am not going to say things I do not mean anymore.
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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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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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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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Everything I have now is so real, so vivid.
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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 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've been a jazz artist playing pop and R&B my entire career.
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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'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'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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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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