Stevie Wonder Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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."

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

I see the light in your smile.

Isn't she lovely made from love?

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.

I just called to say, 'I love you.

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

We can't live in a place of fear.

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'm still experimenting.

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.

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

Heaven help the roses if the bombs begin to fall

Time is long but life is short.

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

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

Music at its essence is what gives us memories.

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.

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

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

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

Hate knows that love is the cure.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

The Lord that I serve says the impossible is unacceptable.

I'm believing that miracles and blessings still exist.

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.

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

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

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

When I grow up I wanna be like Omar

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

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

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

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

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

Law and order comes from having respect for one another.

You can't hear me? Read my lips!