Marvin Gaye Quotes

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

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

Ain't nothing like the real thing.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Negotiating means getting the best of your opponent.

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?

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

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

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

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.