Quotes by Brian McKnight

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

For me able to do the records I want to do and not have to worry about this producer or that producer or that trend, I’m not really interested in that.

People don’t like when you point out to them and remind them that they’re not very smart.

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.