Marvin Gaye
Great artists suffer for the people.Collection: Art
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.Collection: Nature
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.Collection: Music
My father has a great voice. My father used to sing... just sing.Collection: Great
Music, not sex, got me aroused.Collection: Music
Marriage is miserable unless you find the right person that is your soulmate and that takes a lot of looking.Collection: Marriage
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.Collection: Smile
If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.Collection: Peace
War is not the answer, because only love can conquer hate.Collection: War
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.Collection: Peace
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.
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.
God was very good to me as a child, and I'm a very blessed individual.
Negotiation means getting the best of your opponent.
Negotiating means getting the best of your opponent.
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.
Detroit turned out to be heaven, but it also turned out to be hell.
I am not a star. At least, I don't consider myself a star.
Who isn't fascinated by evil?
I feel that people in Europe are different from Americans - I think your soul is a little deeper.
I sing about life.
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'd had it as a member of a group. I sang with the Moonglows for two years, and that was enough.
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.
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.
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.Collection: Artist
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.Collection: Thinking
Politics and hypocrites is turning us all into lunatics.Collection: Hypocrite
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.Collection: Eye
War is not the answer, for only love can conquer hateCollection: Hate
Art is a way of possessing destiny.Collection: Art
Don't play with something you should cherish for life.Collection: Play
Crime is increasing, trigger happy policing. Panic is spreading, God knows where we're heading.Collection: Reality
Don't you know how sweet and wonderful life can be?Collection: Sweet
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 timeCollection: Artist
Ain't nothing like the real thing.Collection: Real
Give out some love and you'll find peace sublime.Collection: Giving
If you escape from people too often,, you wind up escaping from yourself.Collection: Escaping
Anger destroys your soul.Collection: Soul
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.Collection: Player
Mercy, mercy me, things ain't what they used to be.Collection: Expression
I want to stop and thank you baby, how sweet it is to be loved by you.Collection: Friendship
I wish that being famous helped prevent me from being constipated.Collection: Wish
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?Collection: Lonely
When I get that feeling, I want some sexual healing.Collection: Sex
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.Collection: Religious
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 GayeCollection: Real
Every chance you get you seem to hurt me more and more, but each hurt makes my love stronger than before.Collection: Hurt
When I look at the world it fills me with sorrow, little children today are really going to suffer tomorrow.Collection: Children
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.Collection: Expression