Stevie Wonder Quotes

I think honestly, SOME people who think they’re gay, they’re confused. People can misconstrue closeness for love. People can feel connected, they bond. I’m not saying all [gay people are confused]. Some people have a desire to be with the same sex. But that’s them.

We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.

I'm a work in progress, but if I know in my heart that I'm doing my best, that my heart's in the right place, that I have unconditional love, I feel okay.

If we begin to stop spewing the negative and really move into using our voices and our pens and our abilities that we have to reach millions of people to the positive, we can make a difference in the world.

We have to have pride in not just one people but all people.

You can't hear me? Read my lips!

There are people who have let the problems of today lead them to conclude that for them life is not the way.

I love Aretha [Franklin] and I've loved her all my life. I think she's an incredible songstress, obviously. She consistently has had this incredible voice. I remember when she was singing gospel in her father's church.

A frowning face can't bring out the beauty that you are.

Mama is the greatest teacher, teacher of love, fearlessness and compassion.

Gun violence is real. People don't come back.

Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision.

Disrespect is real stuff.

Unfortunately, we have warring in the world, so the youngest minds, the brilliant minds, are sent off to war. I think that, you know, you have brilliant people with great possibilities and that's why I really am not really for war. I really am not.

Troubled heart you'll know, problems have solutions, trust and I will show.

Time is long but life is short.

Eyes lie if you ever look into them for the character of the person.

Those yesterdreams were just a cruel and foolish game we used to play, yester-me, yester-you, yesterday.

The exciting thing about a songwriter is that, you know, particularly if you're a songwriter and an artist and you play the parts and you're producing it and all that, you have various times you have to critique what you do.

I remember the beginnings of the Kurzweil reading machine. I was one of the first to meet Ray Kurzweil and purchase the reading machine in Boston. To think that the machine was at least two and a half large suitcases at the time, and now you have a camera and it takes a picture and you have sound.

God gave me life to continue to do things that I would never have done.

You know, I have seven children, so I guess I know some things about life.

Law and order comes from having respect for one another.

All I ever wanted to do was music, and all I've ever asked, as I've gotten to know and discover the world more, is that God would use me in any way to encourage and inspire love and inspire people to bring and give love to each other.

Heaven help the roses if the bombs begin to fall

Smoking cigarettes and writing something nasty on the wall, teacher sends you to the Principal's office down the hall.

I think honestly, some people who think they're gay, they're confused.

Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!

Sneaking out the back door to hand out with those hoodlum friends of mine.

First of all, I'm no better than the next person.

It's my new single - please buy it so we can get Christmas gifts for the kids this year.

Did you know that true love asks for nothing?

Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.

Sometimes we listen to too many commentators about things that don't affect their lives because they're in a different tax bracket. Or to the so-called clergymen giving their interpretation of God's word, and yet they're not rolling the same way in their own lives.

What I'm not confused about is the world needing much more love, no hate, no prejudice, no bigotry and more unity, peace and understanding. Period.

Gods induction, life's construction, these instruct will save every living thing. Can't you see that life's connected?

Change your words into truths and then change that truth into LOVE.

Let us come together before we're annihilated.

Trying your best to bring the water to your eyes, thinking it might stop her from woopin' your behind.

When I wrote the words and I have the music, I felt, wow, you know, this has got to be right. I got to sing it right.

Of all the needs that we have right now, more than anything we need a time for love.

Evil, why do you infest the purest thoughts with hatred?

We can't live in a place of fear.

Don't need cars cause we've learned to fly on Saturn.

We have to be respectful to one another.

It's up to to you to perfect that gift that you've been given. Put your spirit into that song. Focus on the words that you are singing. Get into the experience that you are singing about and sing your heart out.

I am not a normal man.

Hold onto your dreams 'cause they're always worth havin'. Hold on to your dreams til the day your life is said and done.