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.
Interpretation
This quote expresses the belief that doing good in one's life positively impacts future generations.
Marvin Gaye reflects on the importance of hard work and integrity, suggesting that by successfully fulfilling his responsibilities, he not only benefits himself but also his children and grandchildren. He implies a spiritual connection, insinuating that a higher power blesses those who lead a virtuous life, thereby creating a legacy of goodness that extends beyond his own time.
In practice
In a family gathering to inspire hard work among siblings.
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.
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
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
War is not the answer, because only love can conquer hate.
His brothers were the type; he was the variation.
My sister, with her ratty red-highlighted hair and her linen pajamas and her combat boots—how could she possibly worry about being possessed by a goddess? What goddess would want her, except the goddess of chewing gum?
Returning to your family and where you came from, and your history... this is what makes you strong. It's not looking out that's going to do that - it's looking in.
I'm very at ease, and I like it. I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn't think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that's happening to me. I'm rather surprised at who I am, because I'm actually like my dad!
We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God.
I stand on the shoulders of countless people, yet there is one extraordinary person who is my life aspiration. That person is my mother, Celina Sotomayor.
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