Marvin Gaye Quotes

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

  Marvin Gaye

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Peace

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• 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

  Artist, Men, Mind

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• 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.

  Marvin Gaye

  Thinking, Musical, Together

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• Politics and hypocrites is turning us all into lunatics.

  Marvin Gaye

  Hypocrite, Politics

  Song: You're The Man, 2006

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• To be an artist is a blessing and a privilege. Artists must never betray their true hearts. Artists must look beneath the surface and show that there is more to this world than what meets the eye.

  Marvin Gaye

  Eye, Heart, Artist

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

  Marvin Gaye

  Hate, War, Answers

  Song: What's Going On

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• Art is a way of possessing destiny.

  Marvin Gaye

  Art, Destiny, Way

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

  Marvin Gaye

  Play, Cherish, Should

  Song: I Want You, Album: I Want You

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

  Marvin Gaye

  Reality, Panic, Crime

  Song: Inner City Blues, Album: What's Going On, 1971

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

  Marvin Gaye

  Sweet, Wonderful, Knows

  Song: Now: Let's Get It On

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• Ain't nothing like the real thing.

  Marvin Gaye

  Real, Real Things

  Song: Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing, 2006

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• 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

  Artist, People, Overcoming

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

  Marvin Gaye

  Giving, Sublime, Finding Peace

  Song: Right On, Album: What's Going On, 1971

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• If you escape from people too often,, you wind up escaping from yourself.

  Marvin Gaye

  Escaping, Wind, People

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• Anger destroys your soul.

  Marvin Gaye

  Soul, Adages, Your Soul

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• 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

  Player, Night, Years

  "Divided Soul: The Life Of Marvin Gaye". Book by David Ritz, 1985.

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

  Marvin Gaye

  Soulmate, Miserable, Persons

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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.

  Marvin Gaye

  Keys, Piano, Trying

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• Great artists suffer for the people.

  Marvin Gaye

  Artist, People, Suffering

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• Mercy, mercy me, things ain't what they used to be.

  Marvin Gaye

  Expression, Nostalgia, Mercy

  Song: Mercy, Mercy Me

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

  Marvin Gaye

  Friendship, Baby, Sweet

  Song: How Sweet It Is

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

  Marvin Gaye

  Wish, Being Famous

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• 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

  Lonely, Play, Care

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• When I get that feeling, I want some sexual healing.

  Marvin Gaye

  Sex, Healing, Feelings

  "Sexual Healing" (song) (1982)

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• 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.

  Marvin Gaye

  Religious, Jesus, Believe

  Song: Wholy Holy

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