Quotes by Marvin Gaye

• Negotiating means getting the best of your opponent.
• Great artists suffer for the people.
• I am not going to be dictated to by fans, certainly. I am dictated enough to by my record company to last me a million years.
• 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.
• I sing about life.
• If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.
• Marriage is miserable unless you find the right person that is your soulmate and that takes a lot of looking.
• 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.
• Music, not sex, got me aroused.
• Detroit turned out to be heaven, but it also turned out to be hell.