Stevie Wonder quotes:

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  • 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.

  • 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.

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

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

  • Time is long but life is short.

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Let us come together before we're annihilated.

  • The right to bear arms? What about the right to live?

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

  • Minds ripen at very different ages.

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

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

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

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

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

  • Of course I read Braille, yes.

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

  • 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.

  • It feels better to love than to hate.

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • My love lives outside my window Clouds burst to give water So her love can grow My love smiles to me each morning Says she'll never leave me And I know it's so

  • When I grow up I wanna be like Omar

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

  • Heaven help the roses if the bombs begin to fall

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

  • I just called to say, 'I love you.

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

  • I am all for stem cell research.

  • People can misconstrue closeness for love.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • I used to say that if something happened to my mother, I wanted to die with her. That's because I loved her so much. I want to live so I can carry out the essence of what she has shown me: kindness and goodness.

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

  • Baby, everything is alright, uptight, out of sight.

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

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

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

  • Did you know that true love asks for nothing?

  • 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.

  • Disrespect is real stuff.

  • 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.

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

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

  • Every day I searched for the star That never was in the sky Now I see that star is on the earth

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

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

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

  • Fear's what puts dreams to sleep.

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

  • Hate knows that love is the cure.

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

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

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

  • I am not a normal man.

  • I do believe in women. I really do.

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

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

  • I have enough money to satisfy myself for a lifetime.

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

  • I know there are thousands of images of me.

  • 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 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.

  • 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."

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • I see the light in your smile.

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

  • If you don't ask, you don't get.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • I'm believing that miracles and blessings still exist...

  • I'm concerned about how accessible guns are.

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

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

  • I'm still experimenting.

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

  • Isn't she lovely made from love?

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

  • 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'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.

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

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

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