Marvin Gaye Quotes (13 Quotes)

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

War is not the answer, because only love can conquer hate.

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.

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

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.

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.

Music, not sex, got me aroused.

I sing about life.

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.

Great artists suffer for the people.

But Baker ended up doing more than playing guitar. I asked Marvin if I could conduct the band, and he said OK. ... then 'I Heard It Through the Grapevine' was released, and we were all over.

Negotiating means getting the best of your opponent.

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