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.

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

Art is a way of possessing destiny.

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

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

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

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

Ain't nothing like the real thing.

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

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

Anger destroys your 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.

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

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.

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

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

Negotiating means getting the best of your opponent.

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 wish that being famous helped prevent me from being constipated.

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