Brian McKnight Quotes - Page 3

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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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  Thinking, People, Musician

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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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  Play, Albums, Band

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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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  Elements, Records, Wanted

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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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  Creative, Trying, Radio

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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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  Writing, Writing Music, Records

  "Musician Brian McKnight Uses 'More Than Words'". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. March 18, 2013.

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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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  Wall, Hate, Always Trying

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• It's just exciting to be part of something that is brand-new.

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  Exciting, Brands, Brand New

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• I don't care how small the game. I want to win.

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  Winning, Games, Want

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• I just do what I do and hope it's accepted by the public at large. It's different from when Marvin Gaye and Stevie revolutionized what music was 25 years ago. Now there's all this technology that's available to everyone. It's tough to be ahead of anyone.

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  Technology, Years, Different

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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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  Creating, People, Legends

  "Musician Brian McKnight Uses 'More Than Words'". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. March 18, 2013.

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• You can't listen to what people who aren't musical have to say. When Anytime was released, I had bad reviews, and at first I was hurt. Your songs are like your children. You don't want to hear, 'Your kid is ugly.' But I knew the record was good and it would sell.

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  Song, Hurt, Children

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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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  Trying, Watches, Something New

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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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  Morning, Sleep, Night

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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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  Inspirational, Basketball, Dream

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