A biography for Brian McKnighthasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“It is great to have your own label; you can cultivate your own artists... I've worked with pretty much everyone I wanted to.”
“I decided I am not going to say things I do not mean anymore.”
“I think they can co-exist. You don't have to put one down for another. I've been bitten by the acting bug, and where it takes me, it won't take away from the music.”
“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.”
“I was a nerd academically. But I was also an athlete and a musician. I never wanted to be shut out of any situation. I think it was that more than anything.”
“Know the business; you need to know the business side of things.”
“I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve; I write about them.”
“Whenever I fill out the job description I put 'songwriter', never 'singer' or 'artist.' Singers come and go.”
“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.”
“Every song that I've done is me in one way or another.”
“I was brought up to be a gentleman. That means you know how to walk, talk and dress the part.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I was probably six years old when I first sang before an audience.”
“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.”
“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.”
“A lot of musicians put diamonds on things to show they had money. I on the other had felt that Daytona showed I had style and I didn't need to be flashy.”
“I'm not thinking about what needs to be on the radio. I'm not thinking about anything other than - I'm just going to let this music come out of me and not have any sort of preconceived notion of what I should do. I'm just going to do it.”