Explore Quotes by Marvin Gaye

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

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

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 wish that being famous helped prevent me from being constipated.

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

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.

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

Negotiating means getting the best of your opponent.

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.

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

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.

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

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).

And givin' yourself to me can never be wrong

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

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?