Stevie Wonder Quotes

I always wanted my mother to be Queen for a Day. I always used to watch that show that came on television.

Shattered dreams, worthless years, here I am encased in a hollow shell. Life began, then was done, now I stare into a cold and empty well.

I might sing a gospel song in Arabic or do something in Hebrew. I want to mix it up and do it differently than one might imagine.

Problems have solutions.

We have a marriage of people of various cultures coming together. It's not a joke. It's real.

My mother had a rule, obviously, that I couldn't go across the street by myself, but I had to find a way of doing it.

My thing was always trying to do as much as I possibly could do. I wanted to do all the things the other kids did in the neighborhood.

Music can measure how broad our horizons are. My mind wants to see to infinity.

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. I also like that more and more people are committing themselves to close captioning so the deaf can really know what's going on. I like the position of making buildings more accessible by having ramps and various ways people who are paraplegic to be able to get around.

In my career, I learned that giving your services for free gives you a good return on your investment, not just financially but morally. It supplements your personal integrity.

Music at its essence is what gives us memories.

My mother gave me an understanding that as good as you think you are, you're not so great. There's always room for improvement. The reality is when people don't have someone to give them a sense of guidance, and say, "Hey, man, that's not happening," it's really hard.

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.

Handicaps are really to be used another way to benefit yourself and others.

There are a lot of things happening that show us that this, right now, is a time to love.

For the most part, I feel really comfortable with what I've given to the people. I want to give it to them again.

If you think of every single continent there is, on every continent, there is something, a natural resource that every continent has, or sources, that they can really survive with that, or they can trade with that. But a lot of the developed nations have taken those things from those places and have claimed it and, therefore, they're dependent on those other nations.

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

Hate knows that love is the cure.

When the truths of love are planted firm, they won't be hard to find. And words of love I speak to you will echo in your mind.

I think that to a great degree, reggae companies have become very corporate and so maybe some don't have that freedom to say whatever they want to say.

Contrary to what people are saying, you can't go by what people say, but by their spirit.

One of many joyful moments with BB King was him letting me play 'Lucille.' ...The thrill will never be gone.

Minds ripen at very different ages.

I'm living a life. I have nine children.

Use your heart to love somebody. And If your heart is big enough, use your heart to love EVERYBODY

I want to take all the pain that I feel and celebrate and turn it around.

I've always asked to be able to speak and write about injustice and to do it in a way that would encourage people to make things better for everyone.

Blind don't mean you can't, you know, listen.

I'm still experimenting.

My mother told me, if you call yourself 'Little' Stevie Wonder, you'd better be as good as Little Willie John.

All my children are my babies. They're our babies.

With a voice like Ella ringing out there's no way a band can lose.

I am all for stem cell research.

Kenny Burrell is a great musician and his music has helped to make me what I am today.

We're stuck in fear and in not wanting to cross that most important bridge of understanding that we're more alike or not. We all cry, we all laugh.

There may be a brighter star. But through my eyes the light of you is all I see.

You've got to remember that 25 is a great time because, you know, you're passed that 21 thing and it's a high point, a high peak, in life where you're old enough to say what you have discovered, but you're still open to discovering more.

We know the things that are not good and are right. Those things that we know are wrong, we've got to fix them.

There's a Place in the Sun, where there's hope for everyone.

Even though we sometimes would not get a thing, we were happy with the joy the day would bring.

As a matter of fact, wherever I find that law exists, I will not perform in that state or in that part of the world.

I'm glad I'm blind and can't see it.

The power has to be in your desire to see everyone thrive.

Families buying dog food now, starvation roams the streets. Babies die before their born, infected by the grief.

I guess people expect or figure me to be a lot of different things.

As much as I've been blessed to do, this is for me when I want to do what I really want to do as far as helping people. Obviously helping people with disabilities, I want - my desire is to in my lifetime be a very integral part of getting this country and the world completely accessible to everyone with any disability. There should be nowhere that we can't go, and there should be nothing that we can't do. Considering that we have the disability, whichever one it might be, we will be so on point with being able to do that we need little to no assistance.

It could have been worse. I could have been born black.