"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."

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

Marvin Gaye

#Player Quotes #Night Quotes #Years Quotes

“Although it is still important to develop an HIV vaccine, we have significant tools already at our disposal that can make a major impact on the trajectory of this epidemic.”
“(Roberto) Clemente could field the ball in New York and throw out a guy in Pennsylvania.”
“A chess tournament disguised as a circus.”

Source : 1964 Of US political conventions. In the National Observer. Quoted in Edwin A Roberts Jr Elections 1964 (1964).
“I am happy to exhibit, but not to put myself on exhibition.”
“There are only two reasons that anybody does something for 50 years. You've got to believe in what you are doing and love the art form. I love harmony-tight, close harmony.”
“The film drama is the opium of the peopleâ€¦down with bourgeois fairy-tale scenariosâ€¦long live life as it is!”
“You can't build joy on a feeling of self-loathing.”
“Free men have arms; slaves do not.”

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