Brian Mcknight Quotes


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


Whenever I fill out the job description I put 'songwriter,' never 'singer' or 'artist.' Singers come and go. - Brian McKnight


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. - Brian McKnight


The guy comes up to the plate, there's always a chance where he can get a grand slam and everybody forgets about all the times he missed. - Brian McKnight


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


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


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


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


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


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. - Brian McKnight


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