Top 65 Quotes & Sayings by Marvin Gaye
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American musician Marvin Gaye.
Last updated on September 17, 2024.
Our church was a very spiritual church, and we were a very chosen people. The body was small, but the spirit was intense and very evident to anyone who passed by or came in.
Who isn't fascinated by evil?
I sing about life.
In a sense, the rumours suggesting I had quit were true: I had retired, but only from the personal-appearance end. I did that because I had always felt conspicuous onstage, and I'm not the sort of person who likes to be an exhibitionist.
If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.
Negotiation means getting the best of your opponent.
I am not going to be dictated to by fans, certainly. I am dictated enough to by my record company to last me a million years.
It's what makes you happy in life, and to pursue it, I think, is brave and a wonderful thing. I don't care what people say. I just want to pursue what makes me happy.
I think if I had to choose another profession, I'd like to be a judge because I'm very capable of determining what's right and what's not.
God was very good to me as a child, and I'm a very blessed individual.
Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.
Negotiating means getting the best of your opponent.
Marriage is miserable unless you find the right person that is your soulmate and that takes a lot of looking.
My father has a great voice. My father used to sing... just sing.
They would say, 'Okay, do KP,' and I would say, 'Excuse me, but I can't do KP. I'll do it tomorrow if that's all right with you.' And they'd say, 'Hell no, it's not all right with us. You do KP.'
I am not a star. At least, I don't consider myself a star.
If I do my job well, then God will smile on my offspring and on their offspring. I'm sure my father is seeing a blessing in me.
I'd had it as a member of a group. I sang with the Moonglows for two years, and that was enough.
Music, not sex, got me aroused.
War is not the answer, because only love can conquer hate.
I hope to refine music, study it, try to find some area that I can unlock. I don't quite know how to explain it but it's there. These can't be the only notes in the world, there's got to be other notes some place, in some dimension, between the cracks on the piano keys.
I think I've got a real love thing going. I love people, I love life, and I love nature, and I can't see why other people can't be like that.
I feel that people in Europe are different from Americans - I think your soul is a little deeper.
Detroit turned out to be heaven, but it also turned out to be hell.
Great artists suffer for the people.
Don't play with something you should cherish for life.
Ain't nothing like the real thing.
I wish that being famous helped prevent me from being constipated.
There are still times I feel unhappy and I must smile, and there are times I want to cry and I must laugh... people rarely see the real Marvin Gaye
Music is one of the closest link-ups with God that we can probably experience. I think it's a common vibrating tone of the musical notes that holds all life together.
Love your mother, she bore you. Love your father, he works for you.
The more I lived with Jan, the more I loved her, the more I made her miserable. It was a vicious cycle (page 209)……The more I loved her the more I hated her. And the more she loved me, the more I harmed myself (page 269).
If you escape from people too often,, you wind up escaping from yourself.
Anger destroys your soul.
An artist, if he is truly an artist, is only interested in one thing and that is to wake up the minds of men, to have mankind and womankind realize that there is something greater than what we see on the surface.
I don't make records for pleasure. I did when I was a younger artist, but I don't today. I record so that I can feed people what they need, what they feel. Hopefully, I record so that I can help someone overcome a bad time
Politics and hypocrites is turning us all into lunatics.
Give out some love and you'll find peace sublime.
Don't you know how sweet and wonderful life can be?
When I look at the world it fills me with sorrow, little children today are really going to suffer tomorrow.
To be an artist is a blessing and a privilege. Artists must never betray their true hearts. Artists must look beneath the surface and show that there is more to this world than what meets the eye.
Mercy, mercy me, things ain't what they used to be.
Art is a way of possessing destiny.
War is not the answer, for only love can conquer hate
Ain't no mountain high enough, ain't no valley low enough, ain't no river wide enough, to keep me from getting to you.
I want to stop and thank you baby, how sweet it is to be loved by you.
Jesus left a long time ago, said he would return. He left us a book to believe in, in it we've got an awful lot to learn.
Natural fact is, I can't pay my taxes. Make me wanna holler and throw up on my hands.
Every chance you get you seem to hurt me more and more, but each hurt makes my love stronger than before.
Who are they to judge us, simply because our hair is long?
What about this overcrowded land/How much more abuse from man can she stand?
LIVE for LIFE, but let live everybody
And givin' yourself to me can never be wrong
I'd been studying the microphone for a dozen years, and I suddenly saw what I'd been doing wrong. I'd been singing too loud. One night I was listening to a record by Lester Young, the horn player, and it came to me. Relax, just relax. It's all going to be all right.
Crime is increasing, trigger happy policing. Panic is spreading, God knows where we're heading.
When I get that feeling, I want some sexual healing.
I've never had any problems with women. Having been one of the world's greatest womanizers they've probably had more problems with me.
To share is precious, pure and fair. Don't play with something you should cherish for life. Don't you wanna care, ain't it lonely out there?
I'm hooked my friend to the boy who makes slaves out of men, and oh believe me, flying high in a friendly sky.
For me, love carries the seeds of its own destruction.
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