Stevie Wonder Quotes & Sayings

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. — Stevie Wonder

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

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. — Stevie Wonder

I have enough money to satisfy myself for a lifetime. — Stevie Wonder

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

We all have hearts ... If you have a heart, love somebody. If you have enough heart, love everybody. — Stevie Wonder

You can't hear me? Read my lips! — Stevie Wonder

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

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

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

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

When you feel your life's too hard, just go have a talk with God. Well, he's the only free psychiatrist that's known throughout the world. — Stevie Wonder

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. — Stevie Wonder

The musical flags of the world should fly at half mast because truly one of the greatest guitarists in the world and king of the blues has died. I have cherished him and so has the rest of the world who knew him and loved him for his entire career. As we pain, we must celebrate that his music, his style of playing and singing will last forever, from the recordings that he has done and the influence that he has had and will have on guitarists all over this planet. Long live the spirit of B.B. King. — Stevie Wonder

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

I just called to say, 'I love you. — Stevie Wonder

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." — Stevie Wonder

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

Through the ages all great men have taught truth and happiness can't be bought. — Stevie Wonder

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. — Stevie Wonder

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. — Stevie Wonder

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. — Stevie Wonder

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. — Stevie Wonder

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

Minds ripen at very different ages. — Stevie Wonder

If you don't ask, you don't get. — Stevie Wonder

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

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

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

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

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. — Stevie Wonder

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

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

The right to bear arms? What about the right to live? — Stevie Wonder

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. — Stevie Wonder

Problems have solutions. — Stevie Wonder

There're songs to make you smile, there're songs to make you sad. But with a happy song to sing it never seems as bad. — Stevie Wonder

I'm glad I'm blind and can't see it. — Stevie Wonder

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

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

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

The way the world is right now, we need more love, — Stevie Wonder

Many of us feel we walk alone without a friend
Never communicating with the one who lives within. — Stevie Wonder

When I grow up I wanna be like Omar — Stevie Wonder

I see the light in your smile. — Stevie Wonder

Blind don't mean you can't, you know, listen. — Stevie Wonder

Sometimes, I feel I am really blessed to be blind because I probably would not last a minute if I were able to see things. — Stevie Wonder

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 — Stevie Wonder

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

I'm believing that miracles and blessings still exist ... — Stevie Wonder

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

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. — Stevie Wonder

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. — Stevie Wonder

We're not living in a one-dimensional society. You can't just talk about, you know, the horrible things in life and the destruction. — Stevie Wonder

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. — Stevie Wonder

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. — Stevie Wonder

Sometimes I'm very disappointed at some of the people in our family of communicators, whether it be a songwriter or a rapper that's always talking about negativity or a singer or a columnist or a network that basically gets off on just trying to create the negative. — Stevie Wonder

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

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

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. — Stevie Wonder

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

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. — Stevie Wonder

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. — Stevie Wonder

Love's in need of love today ... don't delay ... send yours in right away — Stevie Wonder

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. — Stevie Wonder

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. — Stevie Wonder

People can misconstrue closeness for love. — Stevie Wonder

Let us come together before we're annihilated. — Stevie Wonder

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. — Stevie Wonder

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

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

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. — Stevie Wonder

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

I've had some incredibly triumphal things happen in my life. — Stevie Wonder

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

I might do something in Arabic. I might do something in Hebrew. — Stevie Wonder

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

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 — Stevie Wonder

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. — Stevie Wonder

I am not a normal man. — Stevie Wonder

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

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

Isn't she lovely made from love? — Stevie Wonder

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

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

Loving you, until the day that 8 x 8 x 8 x 8 is 4. — Stevie Wonder

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

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

Heaven help the man who kicks the man who has to crawl. — Stevie Wonder

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. — Stevie Wonder

Of course I read Braille, yes. — Stevie Wonder

Exploitation, mutilation, mutations, confirmation to the evils of the world. — Stevie Wonder

Now some folks say that we should be glad for what we have. Tell me, would you be happy in Village Ghetto Land? — Stevie Wonder

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. — Stevie Wonder

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

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

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. — Stevie Wonder

Mama gives you money for Sunday school, you trade yours for candy after church is through. — Stevie Wonder

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

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