Marvin Gaye
Marvin Gaye
Marvin Gaye was an American singer, songwriter, and musician. Gaye helped to shape the sound of Motown in the 1960s, first as an in-house session player and later as a solo artist with a string of hits, including "Ain't That Peculiar", "How Sweet It Is" and "I Heard It Through the Grapevine", and duet recordings with Mary Wells, Kim Weston, Diana Ross and Tammi Terrell, later earning the titles "Prince of Motown" and "Prince of Soul."...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSoul Singer
Date of Birth2 April 1939
CountryUnited States of America
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.
Marriage is miserable unless you find the right person that is your soulmate and that takes a lot of looking.
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 want to stop and thank you baby, how sweet it is to be loved by you.
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.
Anger destroys your soul.
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.
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
Great artists suffer for the people.
If you escape from people too often,, you wind up escaping from yourself.
I've never had any problems with women. Having been one of the world's greatest womanizers they've probably had more problems with me.
Little Willie John is the soul singer's soul singer.
For me, love carries the seeds of its own destruction.
Love your mother, she bore you. Love your father, he works for you.