If I do my job well, then God will smile on my offspring and on their offspring. I'm sure my father is seeing a blessing in me.
Interpretation
This quote expresses the belief that doing good in one's life positively impacts future generations.
Marvin Gaye reflects on the importance of hard work and integrity, suggesting that by successfully fulfilling his responsibilities, he not only benefits himself but also his children and grandchildren. He implies a spiritual connection, insinuating that a higher power blesses those who lead a virtuous life, thereby creating a legacy of goodness that extends beyond his own time.
In practice
In a family gathering to inspire hard work among siblings.
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.
LIVE for LIFE, but let live everybody
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
Are thing really gettin' better like the newspaper said/What else is new my friend, besides what I read/Can't find no work, can't find no job my friend/Money is tighter than it's ever been/Say man, I just don't understand/What's going on across this land
War is not the answer, because only love can conquer hate.
Some parents let their kids sleep at other people's houses, where they drink alcohol, watch TV for hours and God knows what else. But if you say you have to get all A's and practice the violin for two hours, then they consider that abusive. That upsets me.
The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.
I had to learn to not be so hard. And I had a wife and, at that time, a partner when Samori was born, and for most of Samori's life, a partner, who, for whatever reason, did not have to learn that and was very tender and very, very soft with him.
I never had a lot of drive, but because I had family responsibilities, I had a lot of tenacity - the tenacity of a drowning man.
A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.
My father wasn't a cruel man. And I loved him. But he was a pretty tough character. His own father was even tougher - one of those Victorians, hard as iron - but my dad was tough enough.
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