Brian McKnight Quotes

I hope at some point in my career when my name is mentioned, someone will say "Oh yeah he has a good song!" I'd be happy with that.

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.

My fans are the best in the world! They've grown up with me and stayed with me through this entire journey.

It feels really great to be popular.

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.

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

I think I've tried to stay true to my music since the beginning. It's kind of hard because of the access and technology but I just do what I do.

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.

There's no substitute to being successful on an actual chart.

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.

You know, most of my career I wrote about moments in time. All of us have felt one thing or another and it didn't last very long. Now I'm drawing from real experience. It's a huge difference.

I'll always write music. Whether I release a record, whether I let the public hear it or not, I'm always writing music.

By 17, I had a whole band that would go in and play. It was called Spontaneous Inventions, after a Bobby McFerrin album.