Marvin Gaye Quotes

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

I wanna hear some Diana Ross, I wanna hear some Marvin Gaye. I wanna hear a song that reminds me of a better day. ~ Lou Reed

I remember Marvin Gaye used to sing to me,
He had me feelin' like black was the thing to be. ~ Tupac Shakur

I would love to play Janis Gaye in the Marvin Gaye story. If they ever do the Marvin Gaye story, I would love to play Janis - just throwing that out there. ~ Lauren London

The more I lived with Jan, the more I loved her, the more I made her miserable. It was a vicious cycle (page 209) ... ... The more I loved her the more I hated her. And the more she loved me, the more I harmed myself (page 269). ~ Marvin Gaye

Marvin Gaye was a killer drummer. I think he just played during the soundchecks and he'd have another guy sing his parts while he played the drums. He just wanted to play the drums and have some fun. ~ Dr. John

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. ~ Marvin Gaye

Somebody said I sound like an old lady, and I was really insulted by that. I'm trying to sound like Skip James and Smokey Robinson and Marvin Gaye. ~ Tom Waits

When I wrote 'Marvin Gaye,' my whole intention was to make a record that people would put on a record player ... and just instantly make out with each other. ~ Charlie Puth

I listen to a lot of old stuff like Smokey Robinson, Marvin Gaye, and The Temptations. ~ Brett Davern

Frank Ocean is our modern-day Marvin Gaye. In our house, we have nothing but respect for him. ~ Neneh Cherry

Marvin Gaye Music superstar Marvin Gaye was shot to death by his father. In court the father said, "This is probably the worst thing I've ever done." Probably?????? ~ Joan Rivers

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

I have a couple of all-time favorites: Donny Hathaway and Roberta Flack, Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell. ~ Lauryn Hill

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

My favorites are Stevie Wonder and Marvin Gaye, but those are a little off in terms of getting Detroit right on the head. But of course, you know, "Dancing In The Streets." You can't forget the Motor City. And we can't forget the Motor City. ~ David Maraniss

Lauryn Hill, P-Funk, Marvin Gaye, Public Enemy - I have a very diverse palate for music. I can go from Judy Garland to Jimi Hendrix to Stevie Wonder to Rachmaninoff. I just love great music. ~ Janelle Monae

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

If you escape from people too often,, you wind up escaping from yourself. ~ Marvin Gaye

And givin' yourself to me can never be wrong ~ Marvin Gaye

I have a policy about that word "soul." It is strictly prohibited except in cases of converstations having to do with okra recipes or Marvin Gaye. ~ Sarah Vowell

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

When I get that feeling, I want some sexual healing. ~ Marvin Gaye

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

I'm a huge Marvin Gaye fan. ~ Charlie Puth

I love Motown, that whole era. Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson. I just put on Pandora, and put it on Motown, and it makes me smile; makes me smile so much. ~ Tika Sumpter

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

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

I never took singing lessons. I guess, I feel comfortable with it, but I do not feel like a singer. I never want to sing without a guitar in my hand. I consider myself more of a songwriter, rather than a singer. I could never be in a wedding band and just sing Marvin Gaye songs. ~ Jack Johnson

Ain't no mountain high enough, ain't no valley low enough, ain't no river wide enough, to keep me from getting to you. ~ Marvin Gaye

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

I feel close to Marvin Gaye, Vincent van Gogh, because nobody appreciated his work until he was dead. Now it's worth millions. ~ Tupac Shakur

I'm in L.A., I'm in my early 20s, and I'm like, 'There are so many pretty girls here! Let's Marvin Gaye and get it on!' ~ Charlie Puth

I think about Marvin Gaye and 'Sexual Healing.' What a radical idea that sex was healing. I learned my politics through that music. ~ Eve Ensler

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 ~ Marvin Gaye

I'd been studying the microphone for a dozen years, and I suddenly saw what I'd been doing wrong. I'd been singing too loud. One night I was listening to a record by Lester Young, the horn player, and it came to me. Relax, just relax. It's all going to be all right. ~ Marvin Gaye

Miguel has this Prince, Marvin Gaye, old-school feel that I love. ~ Becky G

Ain't nothing like the real thing. ~ Marvin Gaye

There are many influences in my music, not only blues. R&B, Motown, gospel, old timey, jazz, even classical are all part of what I do. I started with classical, then country, then blues, and after that I started listening heavily to Motown and gospel. My earliest efforts as a songwriter were soul. Aretha Franklin, Curtis Mayfield, Wilson Pickett, Gladys Knight, James Brown, Otis Redding, Marvin Gaye and Fontella Bass are just a few of the names that come to mind as the God's of soul and Motown. ~ Rory Block

Your voice is like a very serious instrument that you have to tame if you want to be an amazing singer - Marvin Gaye or Michael Jackson. ~ Theophilus London

That would be great," John said."I try and make the night as romantic for you as possible," the chef said as he cracked an egg on the grill and then started humming "Let's get it on" by Marvin Gaye. ~ Magan Vernon

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

An artist, if he is truly an artist, is only interested in one thing and that is to wake up the minds of men, to have mankind and womankind realize that there is something greater than what we see on the surface. ~ Marvin Gaye

Little Willie John is the soul singer's soul singer. ~ Marvin Gaye

Dear Mama, don't cry, your baby boy's doin' good,
Tell the homies I'm in heaven, and they ain't got hoods.
Seen a show with Marvin Gaye last night, it had me shook,
Drippin' peppermint Schnapps, with Jackie Wilson, and Sam Cooke ... ~ Tupac Shakur

My favorite artists always documented emotion. Marvin Gaye and Al Green and Sade and Aaliyah. ~ Drake

Art is a way of possessing destiny. ~ Marvin Gaye

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

My parents only played Isley Brothers, Marvin Gaye. That's when New Kids came out, and we wanted to jam that. My mom was like, "Put that thing off and put my damn record on". So from old school to '90s to recent, it's just always been there. ~ Solange Knowles

I grew up in a household in which they'd always play old skool classic R&B love songs - Al Green, Sam Cooke, Marvin Gaye ... And my mom has even said that, when I was in her womb, she'd put the headphones to her stomach and play those songs to me! ~ Jeremih

'Marvin Gaye' came about my first day in L.A. It was kind of crazy that that's my first song that I wrote and it blew up that much. What's crazy is the next day I wrote 'See You Again,' so that's pretty interesting. I was trying to prove myself as a songwriter. ~ Charlie Puth

I thank God for Hip Hop because Marvin Gaye didn't have that and he was able to be that dope. For us to have that and more, I feel like it is up to us to be as dope as we can possibly be. ~ B.J. The Chicago Kid

You know I got kicked out of high school and I used to go to Hendrix concerts. I used to go see Marvin Gaye and B.B. King and so here I am on television as an actor playing the part of this really sweet wholesome all American boy. The reality was I had a much different kind of teenage life. ~ David Cassidy

I listened to a lot of Marvin Gaye and Motown records. ~ Charlie Puth

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 ~ Marvin Gaye

I wish that being famous helped prevent me from being constipated. ~ Marvin Gaye

Great artists suffer for the people. ~ Marvin Gaye

Who are they to judge us, simply because our hair is long? ~ Marvin Gaye

Who isn't fascinated by evil? ~ Marvin Gaye

Marvin Gaye is one of my favorite revolutionaries. He spoke from his heart, his mind. That's what I want to do. ~ Erykah Badu

Politics and hypocrites is turning us all into lunatics. ~ Marvin Gaye

Negotiating means getting the best of your opponent. ~ Marvin Gaye

This record has a lot of influences that I'd love to cover, like Marvin Gaye and Earth, Wind and Fire. Maybe I'll do some covers of my major influences during my live show. ~ Jon Secada

His moods changed minute to minute, and Jan could change him quicker than anyone. The more he loved her the more mixed up he got. He was such a beautiful man, but so unstable. ~ David Ritz

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

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

Sometimes I sing along in the car, if something good is playing like Marvin Gaye. ~ Aaron Neville

My pops and my mom started playing Marvin Gaye and the Isley Brothers and all these people, but at the same time, they always had Snoop on right behind it in the same mix. ~ Kendrick Lamar

I spread love wherever I'm at. I'm like Marvin Gaye. ~ Tracy Morgan

LIVE for LIFE, but let live everybody ~ Marvin Gaye

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

There were many stars in Motown's firmament - among them, Stevie, Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson, Martha Reeves and Diana Ross - but I happen to have loved the Four Tops most of all. ~ Jon Landau

Sexual healing is good for me. ~ Marvin Gaye

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 ~ Marvin Gaye

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? ~ Marvin Gaye

Natural fact is, I can't pay my taxes. Make me wanna holler and throw up on my hands. ~ Marvin Gaye

I'm the Ali of today. I'm the Marvin Gaye of today. I'm the Bob Marley of today. I'm the Martin Luther King, or all the other greats that have come before us. And a lot of people are starting to realise that now. ~ R. Kelly

I find personalized search convenient - I read stories on my Facebook feed, my Twitter feed, daily email services, and my iPhone's Flipboard app, and would love to be able to focus my searches on just those particular services. ~ Marvin Ammori

Give no time to finding fault of criticism. ~ Marvin J. Ashton

When my wife got sick, I didn't understand why God was doing what he was doing. ~ Marvin Sapp

Success is difficult to define. ~ Marvin Sapp

Ellen walks past the lobby in her high heels, stops in her tracks, and turns back around to face Zack.
She points at Marvin. "Is that a goat?"
Zack nods once. "Yes, ma'am."
"In my lobby?"
"Yes, ma'am. But he's a friendly goat."
Ellen plasters on a polite smile. "I don't care if he's a tap-dancing goat. I want him out of here. ~ Chelsea Fine

We had in the West a very romantic vision of Russia back in 1991, when the Soviet Union died and whatever is Russia began to emerge. And we began to think of it as a democracy. We're going to bring it into the West. All is going to be wonderful. That was never in the cards. ~ Marvin Kalb

The Internet freedom issue we need to focus on is network neutrality. ~ Marvin Ammori

I'm partial to coffee shops, brain work, and poems on the page. I write after midnight. Sometimes, twisty syntax happens, and I surrender. ~ Marvin Bell

Live for One day instead to die every day.
Work is worship
Do or die. ~ Nancy Patchen

Keep doing what you do, and people that enjoy what you do are gonna buy your music and love on you. ~ Marvin Sapp

I grew up Jewish, became an atheist and a Marxist, and 28 years ago, at age 26, became a Christian. ~ Marvin Olasky

Christian feminists insist that patriarchal Christianity's denial of women's humanity, its disrespect for their human rights, and its idealizing of women's powerlessness is far from accidental. This system of male control naturalizes dominant-subordinate relationships for the purpose of legitimating male supremacy. Its continuation depends, to a great extent, on the compliance of women and men to its norms and ideological assumptions about gender. When gender conformity and compliance to racist patriarchal norms break down, patriarchy turns violent, especially when women display autonomous self-direction and "when we women live and act as full and adequate persons in our own right." As [Beverly] Harrison explains: It is never the mere presence of a women nor the image of women, nor fear of 'femininity,' that is the heart of misogyny. The core of misogyny, which has yet to be broken or even touched, is the reaction that occurs when women's concrete power is manifest. ~ Marvin M. Ellison

If Candy doesn't do it for her, I bet Mrs. Marvin Housby would like the smooth ride of your Woody."
"You're going to get your ass handed to you later. I'm still pissed about you snapping my glasses. Don't even get me started on you pimping me to the blue-hair."
Jillian popped the caps off two bottles of beer, the handed one to Jackson. "I like her. I bet she's a real cougar."
Jackson took a long pull. "I don't know. The whiskers on her chin bear greater resemblance to a wild boar than a cougar. ~ Jewel E. Ann

Putin never wanted all of Ukraine. He wanted for historical purposes to take Crimea. He did. Then he wanted a part of Ukraine that he could always use to advance Russian interests. And he is now at a point where nobody in the West is shouting, hey, stop. Give us back Crimea. It's all accepted. And so he has won. ~ Marvin Kalb

Difficulties can be a valuable tool in our pursuit of perfection. Adversity need have no necessary connection with failure. ~ Marvin J. Ashton

I've gradually risen from lower-class background to lower-class foreground. ~ Marvin L. Cohen

LOUIS SACHAR is the author of the New York Times #1 bestseller Holes, winner of the Newbery Medal, the National Book Award, and the Christopher Award. He is also the author of Stanley Yelnats' Survival Guide to Camp Green Lake; Small Steps, winner of the Schneider Family Book Award; and The Cardturner, a Publishers Weekly Best Book, a Parents' Choice Gold Award recipient, and an ALA-YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults book. His books for younger readers include There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom, The Boy Who Lost His Face, Dogs Don't Tell Jokes, and the Marvin Redpost series, among many others. ~ Louis Sachar

Some mothers seem to have the capacity and energy to make their children's clothes, bake, give piano lessons, go to Relief Society, teach Sunday School, attend parent-teacher association meetings, and so on. Other mothers look upon such women as models and feel inadequate, depressed, and think they are failures when they make comparisons ... Sisters, do not allow yourselves to be made to feel inadequate or frustrated because you cannot do everything others seem to be accomplishing. Rather, each should assess her own situation, her own energy, and her own talents, and then choose the best way to mold her family into a team, a unit that works together and supports each other. Only you and your Father in Heaven know your needs, strengths, and desires. Around this knowledge your personal course must be charted and your choices made. ~ Marvin J. Ashton

I speak to you in one tongue/ but every moment that ever mattered to me/ occurred in another language. ~ Marvin Bell

I have to prioritize: father first, and then a pastor and a recording artist and entrepreneur. I try to put everything in proper perspective, and then the proper priority. ~ Marvin Sapp

Societies need rules that make no sense for individuals. For example, it makes no difference whether a single car drives on the left or on the right. But it makes all the difference when there are many cars! ~ Marvin Minsky

Ethnography literally means 'a portrait of a people.' An ethnography is a written description of a particular culture - the customs, beliefs, and behavior - based on information collected through fieldwork. ~ Marvin Harris

If introspection is thought, Marvin was not introspective. He felt the contempt he lived under as raw sensation, as heat
heat in the ears, behind the eyes, in the tangled ganglia sheathed by the skull. And contempt, it seemed, was no different from fear. At Princeton he became afraid. It dawned on him that it was not enough to be bright (all Townsend Harris boys were bright): you had to be right. For the first time he was struck by the import of birthright
you slid out of the womb grasping it in your tiny fist, a certificate that guaranteed you would know how to speak and dress and scorn and brazenly intimidate everyone doomed to enter the world empty-handed. Not that Marvin was altogether empty-handed
he had his scholarship, and he had, most of all, the engine of his will and the grim burden of his hurt. He resisted humiliation by accepting it, sometimes almost appearing to invite it: it taught him what was suitable and what wasn't. ~ Cynthia Ozick