Quotes from Marvin Gaye

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.

Music, not sex, got me aroused.

Great artists suffer for the people.

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.

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

Love your mother, she bore you. Love your father, he works for you.

Give out some love and you'll find peace sublime.

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.

Let's save all the children, save the babies, save the babies.

Politics and hypocrites is turning us all into lunatics.

Crime is increasing, trigger happy policing. Panic is spreading, God knows where we're heading.

Don't play with something you should cherish for life.

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

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

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?

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.

LIVE for LIFE, but let live everybody

Who isn't fascinated by evil?

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.

Jesus left a long time ago, said he would return. He left us a book to believe in, in it we've got an awful lot to learn.

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 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.

Every chance you get you seem to hurt me more and more, but each hurt makes my love stronger than before.

Music is one of the closest link-ups with God that we can probably experience. I think it's a common vibrating tone of the musical notes that holds all life together.