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.
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.
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.
For me, love carries the seeds of its own destruction.
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.
Negotiation means getting the best of your opponent.
War is not the answer, because only love can conquer hate.