Explore Quotes by Marvin Gaye

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.

Negotiation means getting the best of your opponent.

My father has a great voice. My father used to sing... just sing.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

I feel that people in Europe are different from Americans - I think your soul is a little deeper.

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

Great artists suffer for the people.

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.

God was very good to me as a child, and I'm a very blessed individual.

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.

LIVE for LIFE, but let live everybody

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

Art is a way of possessing destiny.

Music, not sex, got me aroused.

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.

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