Love Quote by Kevin Eubanks

For a working musician, that sentence lands less like a Hallmark caption and more like a quiet boundary. "I love both my parents dearly" is almost aggressively plain, the kind of simplicity that reads as intentional in a culture that constantly asks artists to turn their lives into content. Kevin Eubanks spent decades in a public-facing role where charm was part of the job, but intimacy was optional. This line keeps the warmth while refusing the overshare.

The craft is in the symmetry. "Both" does a lot of work: it shuts down the usual narrative machinery that wants a favorite, a villain, a wound to mine for meaning. It's preemptive, too, the kind of phrase you reach for when you sense a leading question coming ("Were they supportive?" "Who pushed you?" "Did you have to rebel?"). By naming affection first, he drains the interview of conflict without sounding defensive.

"Dearly" adds a musician's sense of dynamics: not loud, not performative, but sustained. It's a word that implies cost and duration, the long arc of gratitude rather than a temporary shout-out. In the background is the standard origin-story pressure placed on successful Black artists in particular, where family can be framed either as salvation or obstacle. Eubanks sidesteps that binary. The intent feels less like revelation than maintenance: protecting real relationships from the public's appetite for a cleaner, more dramatic plot.