Stevie Wonder Quotes

My father really was not the dominant person who raised the family, it was my mother who raised the family.

I can't say that I'm always writing in my head but I do spend a lot of time in my head writing or coming up with ideas. And what I do usually is write the music and melody and then, you know, maybe the basic idea. But when I feel that I don't have a song or just say, God, please give me another song. And I just am quiet and it happens.

I see the light in your smile.

I never imagined I'd meet Berry Gordy who told me when he first heard me sing, "You know, your singing's okay, but I like your harmonica playing better."

Why has there never been a holiday where peace is celebrated all throughout the world?

Brother says he's telling about you playing Doctor with that girl.

Are you happy when you stick a needle in your vein?

Clearly, love is love, between a man and a woman, a woman and a man, a woman and a woman and a man and a man.

This is like one thing that I've tried to do, and I think successfully, that when you realize that nothing really belongs to you, you begin to appreciate having an understanding of just where your head is at, and you feel so much better.

We have to truly become a united people of the United States of America, and divisiveness cannot make that happen.

I know there are thousands of images of me.

I feel thankful to God, first and foremost, allowing me to enjoy this 'smell the roses' kind of thing.

We all know that love is truly the key. Anyone who tries to make anyone think that things of destruction has anything to do with God or Allah, they're a liar.

Sometimes I wish I could drive a car, but I'm gonna drive a car one day, so I don't worry about that.

Until we Dream of Life and Life becomes a Dream.

You can't base your life on other people's expectations.

Many years ago, but not so long ago, there were those who said, 'Well, you have three strikes against you: You're black, you're blind and you're poor,' But God said to me, 'I will make you rich in the spirit of inspiration, to inspire others as well as create music to encourage the world to a place of oneness and hope, and positivity.' I believed Him and not them.

Different artists are talking about the laws that exist and how they need to be fixed so that compensation does happen to a far fairer level. And I agree with that.

I just called to say, 'I love you.

You are the sunshine of my life That's why I'll always be around, You are the apple of my eye, Forever you'll stay in my heart

My mother would cry about my blindness and the hopelessness of my ever seeing, but I told her I wasn't sad. I believed God had something for me to do.

I do believe in women. I really do.

I am what I am. I love me! And I don't mean that egotistically - I love that God has allowed me to take whatever it was that I had and to make something out of it.

I know that there'll be a continuation of making the world more accessible for people with disabilities.

The truth is that we have to, as American citizens, stop thinking that this life that we're living, the things that we're dealing with, is some reality TV show. This is real life, real children, real situations.

I'm believing that miracles and blessings still exist.

Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it.

I'm too high, but I ain't left the ground.

There's only one true king of rock 'n' roll. His name is Chuck Berry.

Isn't she lovely made from love?