Marvin Gaye Quotes

If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.

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.

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.

Politics and hypocrites is turning us all into lunatics.

Crime is increasing, trigger happy policing. Panic is spreading, God knows where we're heading.

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.

War is not the answer, for only love can conquer hate

Don't play with something you should cherish for life.

Don't you know how sweet and wonderful life can be?

Marriage is miserable unless you find the right person that is your soulmate and that takes a lot of looking.

Art is a way of possessing destiny.

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.

I want to stop and thank you baby, how sweet it is to be loved by you.

When I get that feeling, I want some sexual healing.

Ain't nothing like the real thing.

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

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?

If you escape from people too often,, you wind up escaping from yourself.

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.

Music, not sex, got me aroused.

Every chance you get you seem to hurt me more and more, but each hurt makes my love stronger than before.

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.

Anger destroys your soul.

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

Give out some love and you'll find peace sublime.

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.

Detroit turned out to be heaven, but it also turned out to be hell.

Great artists suffer for the people.

And givin' yourself to me can never be wrong

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).

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.

I'm hooked my friend to the boy who makes slaves out of men, and oh believe me, flying high in a friendly sky.

Negotiating means getting the best of your opponent.

Mercy, mercy me, things ain't what they used to be.

When I look at the world it fills me with sorrow, little children today are really going to suffer tomorrow.

LIVE for LIFE, but let live everybody

Who are they to judge us, simply because our hair is long?

For me, love carries the seeds of its own destruction.

What about this overcrowded land/How much more abuse from man can she stand?

I am not a star. At least, I don't consider myself a star.

Too busy thinking about my baby and I ain't got time for nothing else.

Who isn't fascinated by evil?

I wish that being famous helped prevent me from being constipated.

Love your mother, she bore you. Love your father, he works for you.

Natural fact is, I can't pay my taxes. Make me wanna holler and throw up on my hands.

Are thing really gettin' better like the newspaper said/What else is new my friend, besides what I read/Can't find no work, can't find no job my friend/Money is tighter than it's ever been/Say man, I just don't understand/What's going on across this land

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.

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.

Little Willie John is the soul singer's soul singer.

Let's save all the children, save the babies, save the babies.