Kevin Eubanks

I really live a simple life and don't need very much to feel good and happy. Don't get me wrong; I believe you should get what you earn. Sometimes you have to fight for it. ↗

— Kevin Eubanks

#earn #feel #feel good #fight #get

I really worked with icons in the music business, which really had a strong effect on me. It wasn't just pick-up gigs. ↗

— Kevin Eubanks

#effect #gigs #had #i #icons

I think Wes Montgomery is the greatest jazz guitarist that ever lived. ↗

— Kevin Eubanks

#greatest #guitarist #i #i think #jazz

I thought people cared about music in a deep way, so I was writing to that spirit in people and in myself. It was me, thinking I knew what was up. Youth, who else can change the world? ↗

— Kevin Eubanks

#cared #change #change the world #deep #deep way

I was playing violin for a long time, about 6 years. It takes a while. You need very patient people in your house when you have a violin. ↗

— Kevin Eubanks

#house #i #long #long time #need

I wish I could sing. I love singers, but I am way too shy. Scares the hell out of me. ↗

— Kevin Eubanks

#could #hell #i #i am #i love

If you play jazz, then you play with your fingers. If you're playing rock, you use a pick. There's really no rhyme or reason to that other than that's just the way it has been. ↗

— Kevin Eubanks

#fingers #jazz #just #other #pick

It is hard for a black man to just be himself. We spend so much time in defense of something that is indefensible because there is nothing to defend. ↗

— Kevin Eubanks

#black #defend #defense #hard #himself

It's shameful what's happening in this country in terms of what we deny our children. ↗

— Kevin Eubanks

#country #deny #happening #our #shameful

James Brown is the reason I play guitar. ↗

— Kevin Eubanks

#guitar #i #james #james brown #play