Gaye Quotes

I think if Jimi had had the right person, she would have said: `Let`s go to Hawaii and get rid of Jimi for a week. You need to crystallize your existence and achieve that clarity of vision. This is the word that separates human beings from gods: willingness. Most people don`t have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they talk like victims. And, like Jim Morrison or Jimi Hendrix or Marvin Gaye, they die as victims. But John Coltrane didn`t die as a victim.

Marvin Gaye is one of my favorite revolutionaries. He spoke from his heart, his mind. That`s what I want to do.

More than just being the voice of a generation, Marvin Gaye proved to be its very heartbeat.

More than just being the voice of a generation, Marvin Gaye proved to be its very heartbeat. As a filmmaker, I was drawn to tell the story of a human being who was never fully realized, one with faults and foibles and an uncommon grace expressed every time he picked up the microphone.