Marvin Gaye Quotes

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Marvin Gaye

Profession : Musician

Birth : April 2, 1939

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.

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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.

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Marriage is miserable unless you find the right person that is your soulmate and that takes a lot of looking.

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Music, not sex, got me aroused.

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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.

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

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

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Negotiation means getting the best of your opponent.

Marvin Gaye

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

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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.

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Great artists suffer for the people.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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I sing about life.

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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.

Marvin Gaye

Negotiating means getting the best of your opponent.

Marvin Gaye