Brian McKnight Quotes

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.

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.

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.

I Don't Care How Small The Game. I Want To Win.

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.

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.

By 17, I Had A Whole Band That Would Go In And Play. It Was Called Spontaneous Inventions, After A Bobby Mcferrin Album.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.