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Brian McKnight
American
Musician
Born:
Jun 5
,
1969
Day
Me
Music
People
Think
You
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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.
Brian McKnight
People
Perspective
Will
Breath
Back
Something
Take
Take A Deep Breath
Never
Step
Look
Most
Just
Different
Want
Different Perspective
Deep
Deep Breath
Actually
I was brought up to be a gentleman. That means you know how to walk, talk and dress the part.
Brian McKnight
You
Walk
Gentleman
Dress
Brought
Part
Know
Talk
How
Up
Means
A fine timepiece is part of dressing like a gentleman. When I first made a little money, I bought my first watch which was a Rolex Daytona. It was just one of those things that said I was successful.
Brian McKnight
Money
Made
First
Gentleman
Those
Fine
Dressing
Part
Bought
Like
Daytona
Said
Just
Just One
Which
Little
Successful
Little Money
Things
Watch
Stevie didn't use the technology to drive the song. He used it to enhance. I use the tools to further my work, I don't use my work to further the tools.
Brian McKnight
Work
Technology
Song
Drive
Tools
Further
He
Stevie
Use
Used
Enhance
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.
Brian McKnight
Day
Me
Every Day
Every
Say
Rip
He
Nobody
Him
Stevie
Stevie Wonder
Knows
Off
Wonder
Godfather
Done
Influenced
I don't care how small the game. I want to win.
Brian McKnight
Game
Win
Care
Small
How
Want
I keep these songs in my head until I get behind the microphone. I never spend more than 30 or 40 minutes singing the vocal or it will sound mechanical. There are always mistakes, but it's about feeling more than being perfect.
Brian McKnight
Will
Feeling
Singing
Mistakes
Spend
Minutes
About
Vocal
More
Perfect
Never
Songs
Head
Until
Always
Sound
Than
Get
Microphone
Behind
Being
Mechanical
Keep
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
Time
You
Sit
Jazz
Bench
Way
Would
About
Guys
Never
Studied
Jordan
Like
Masters
Ball
Doing
Michael
Michael Jordan
Improvisation
Want
After
Moment
Who
Now
Twice
Why
Play
Lionel Richie told me forget about the critics. But if you come back with hit after hit, you don't have to worry about anything.
Brian McKnight
Me
You
Back
Worry
Critics
About
Come
Hit
Lionel
Forget
After
Anything
Richie
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
Band
Keyboard
Keyboard Player
High
High School
Had
Stuff
Most
Instruments
Learned
How
Behind
Interested
Them
Worked
Theory
Play
Thing
Player
Playing
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.
Brian McKnight
Good
You
Hurt
People
Ugly
First
Musical
Say
Kid
Released
Bad
Would
Record
Had
Songs
Knew
Like
Hear
Reviews
Sell
Listen
Children
Want
Anytime
Your
Who
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.
Brian McKnight
People
Made
Three
First
Think
Back
Out
Tried
No Idea
About
Write
Had
Songs
Idea
Know
Because
Got
Doing
Were
Did
Going
Listened
Anything
Them
Figure
Special
Radio
Keep
Keep Going
Why
Play
Albums
When the label came to me to say, 'would you like to do another record,' I said, 'Well I got these sixteen songs sitting here, so let's do it.' And that was pretty much it... I never stopped writing, it's just the way that the business is now; you just try to find a different model.
Brian McKnight
Me
You
Business
Writing
Try
Way
Say
Would
Find
Record
Pretty
Never
Songs
Like
Well
Another
Said
Got
Came
Label
Model
Sitting
Just
Sixteen
Stopped
Different
Much
Now
Here
I think I'd have to say my favorite IWC. They have been around for so long and the craftsmanship is top notch. A watch maker that has been in business over 100 years has to know what they are doing.
Brian McKnight
Business
Long
Think
Top
Say
Favorite
Has-Been
Over
Know
Around
Maker
Doing
Been
Years
Craftsmanship
Notch
Watch
I'll always write music. Whether I release a record, whether I let the public hear it or not, I'm always writing music.
Brian McKnight
Music
Writing
Release
Record
Write
Always
Hear
Whether
Public
I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve; I write about them.
Brian McKnight
Emotions
Sleeve
Wear
About
Write
Them
I'm probably the furthest from being romantic that you've ever seen; I'm not even close to being romantic in any way until I have to be.
Brian McKnight
You
Seen
Way
Furthest
Until
Close
Any
Being
Romantic
Even
Ever
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.
Brian McKnight
Emotions
Way
Statements
About
Write
Foolproof
Blanket
No-One
Nobody
Come
Make
Because
Answers
Up
Anything
Moments
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.
Brian McKnight
Work
Love
People
Own
My Own
Am
Doing
La
Just
Want
James
James Taylor
Taylor
Billy
Billy Joel
Thing
Core
People don't like when you point out to them and remind them that they're not very smart.
Brian McKnight
You
People
Smart
Out
Point
Remind
Like
Very
Them
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.
Brian McKnight
Love
Morning
Before
Musician
Something
Writer
Performer
Am
Exist
Up
Waking
Waking Up
Did
Going
Being
Then
Night
Sleep
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.
Brian McKnight
Love
You
World
Somebody
Everyone
One Thing
Only
Only One Thing
Return
Common
Want
Loved
Whether
To Love
Thing
I'm the fifth generation of Seventh Day Adventists and the youngest of four brothers. When I was still very small, we formed a gospel quartet.
Brian McKnight
Day
Generation
Seventh
Brothers
Small
Gospel
Still
Quartet
Very
Formed
Fifth
Youngest
Four
I was probably six years old when I first sang before an audience.
Brian McKnight
Old
First
Before
Audience
Years
Six
Sang
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
Music
Jazz
Every
Type
Kinds
Something
Songs
Learned
Making
Hip-Hop
Listen
Whether
Pop
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