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.
It's just really making sure I am doing the best job I can do as a dad. I do think that is my No. 1 job.
I wanted to be a 150% entrepreneur and a 150% mom, and I found that I was having a very hard time doing both. I was about 75% and 75% - still better than 100%, but not what I was accustomed to at work.
There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
I've learned... That simple walks with my father around the block on summer nights when I was a child did wonders for me as an adult.
Our parents set the moral tone of the family. They expected more of some of us and less of others, but never less than they thought we were capable of.
It would be really cool to have my dad here to witness this, to see his grandchildren, to see this woman that I chose to share my life with, to just come walk on set and be like, 'Ah, this is how you make TV shows and movies.'
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