Stevie Wonder Quotes

There're songs to make you smile, there're songs to make you sad. But with a happy song to sing it never seems as bad.

Mama gives you money for Sunday school, you trade yours for candy after church is through.

We all have hearts.... If you have a heart, love somebody. If you have enough heart, love everybody.

Heaven help the man who kicks the man who has to crawl.

The way the world is right now, we need more love.

I have enough money to satisfy myself for a lifetime.

Ya gots to work with what you gots to work with.

It feels better to love than to hate.

The musical flags of the world should fly at half mast because truly one of the greatest guitarists in the world and king of the blues has died. I have cherished him and so has the rest of the world who knew him and loved him for his entire career. As we pain, we must celebrate that his music, his style of playing and singing will last forever, from the recordings that he has done and the influence that he has had and will have on guitarists all over this planet. Long live the spirit of B.B. King.

Call up, ring once, hang up the phone to let me know you made it home. Don't want nothing to be wrong with my part time lover.

I've had some incredibly triumphal things happen in my life.

For did my dreams come true when I looked at you. And maybe too, if you would believe, you too might be overjoyed, over loved, over me.

People love to hear music on their personal devices, but the issue really becomes, if you're able to download music, you should know this download and the quality of it is going to be of the highest, and that it has a value to it and on it.

When you believe in things that you don't understand, then you suffer.

Exploitation, mutilation, mutations, confirmation to the evils of the world.

Love's in need of love today...don't delay...send yours in right away

I might do something in Arabic. I might do something in Hebrew.

When I was a child, kids used to make fun of me because I was blind. But I just became more curious, 'How can I climb this tree and get an apple for this girl?' That's what mattered to me.

I'm concerned about how accessible guns are.

Here is my music. It is all I have to tell you how I feel. Know that your love keeps my love strong.

A lack of communication between citizens and policemen is real stuff.

I really do seek to create music that is timeless, ... Each project takes on its own life, and the songs from "A Time To Love" are the most appropriate for the statement I wanted to make...The most important thing is, when I do give the music, I'm satisfied with it, that it speaks for what I want to do...It is a different kind of lyric; it's very picturesque. I can see everything that I'm writing, I can visualize all those things happening.

Loving you, until the day that 8 x 8 x 8 x 8 is 4.

The most important thing is, when I do give the music, I'm satisfied with it, that it speaks for what I want to do.

I like the iPhone, the iPad, all the various members of that family. But I like all the various technologies that are becoming available to make the world more accessible to people who are blind and with low vision.

You know, I always when people ask me, like, what is my most favorite song, I quote Duke Ellington, when they would ask him, what's his favorite composition? And I say, I haven't written it yet. Because, you know, there are different songs for different occasions.

I was so bad. Out of control. So glad I turned out to be a nice guy.

Fear's what puts dreams to sleep.

The Lord that I serve says the impossible is unacceptable.

Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.

Sometimes I'm very disappointed at some of the people in our family of communicators, whether it be a songwriter or a rapper that's always talking about negativity or a singer or a columnist or a network that basically gets off on just trying to create the negative.

Sometimes, I feel I am really blessed to be blind because I probably would not last a minute if I were able to see things.

Do you know, it's funny, but I never thought of being blind as a disadvantage, and I never thought of being black as a disadvantage.

Through the ages all great men have taught truth and happiness can't be bought.

No one has been a greater advocate for the power of love in this world than I; both in my life and in my music.

When you're moving in the positive, your destination is the brightest star.

When you feel your life's too hard, just go have a talk with God. Well, he's the only free psychiatrist that's known throughout the world.

Just because a record has a groove don't make it in the groove.

Disrespecting one's ethnicity or their religious preference, on and on and on, if they have a disability, is not anything that has to do with when we talk about democracy. Equality.

For as long as there's life, for as long as we have things happening in the world, for as long as people haven't been able to work it, for as long as people are not trying to work it out, for as long as there's crime, destruction, hate, bigotry, for as long as there is a spirit that does not have love in it, I will always have something to say.

I listen a lot to rap, and I'm inspired to take it, to use it in another way, to get the message across.

I am all for anything that is going to better equip a person who is physically challenged in any way, to have an opportunity to be able to do what they are able to do.

If you don't ask, you don't get.

Among all the wonderful things we have, we don't seem to have a time to love. And to me that's the fuel, that's the fuel we need to make the engine go.

When I grow up I wanna be like Omar

Now some folks say that we should be glad for what we have. Tell me, would you be happy in Village Ghetto Land?

We're not living in a one-dimensional society. You can't just talk about, you know, the horrible things in life and the destruction.

Rap to me is a modern blues. But until we really confront the truth, we are going to have a Tupac or Eminem or Biggie Smalls to remind us about it - and thank God.