Quotes from Marvin Gaye

For me, love carries the seeds of its own destruction.

I sing about life.

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

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.

I'd had it as a member of a group. I sang with the Moonglows for two years, and that was enough.

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

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

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

I'm hooked my friend to the boy who makes slaves out of men, and oh believe me, flying high in a friendly sky.

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

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.

Too busy thinking about my baby and I ain't got time for nothing else.

Anger destroys your soul.

Negotiation means getting the best of your opponent.

Negotiating means getting the best of your opponent.

Art is a way of possessing destiny.

They would say, 'Okay, do KP,' and I would say, 'Excuse me, but I can't do KP. I'll do it tomorrow if that's all right with you.' And they'd say, 'Hell no, it's not all right with us. You do KP.'

I wish that being famous helped prevent me from being constipated.

I want to stop and thank you baby, how sweet it is to be loved by you.

When I look at the world it fills me with sorrow, little children today are really going to suffer tomorrow.

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.

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

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

Father, fatherWe don't need to escalateWar is not the answerFor only love can conquer hate