Brian McKnight Quotes About Jazz

Quotes about: Jazz

• Jazz is all about improvisation and it's about the moment in time, doing it this way now, and you'll never do it this way twice. I've studied the masters. Why would I want to play ball after the guys who sit on a bench? I want to play like Michael Jordan.

  Brian McKnight

  Play, Guy, Balls

• 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.

  Brian McKnight

  Song, Hip Hop, Hips

• I wanted to put jazz on the record, all the loves of music that I had on the record, so I could show people I was ahead of my 19 years. It may have been over the heads of some people.

  Brian McKnight

  Years, People, Records

• I've been a jazz artist playing pop and R&B my entire career.

  Brian McKnight

  Artist, Careers, Jazz

  Source: www.sfgate.com

• 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.

  Brian McKnight

  Country, Kids, Artist

  "5 questions for Brian McKnight". Interview with Aidin Vaziri, www.houstonchronicle.com. August 16, 2016.

• Most of the stuff I learned to play, I learned in high school. I had a band in high school, a jazz-fusion thing, and I was the keyboard player. I was interested in how the instruments worked and the theory behind playing with them.

  Brian McKnight

  School, Player, Band

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