Top 100 Stevie Wonder Quotes
#1. 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.
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#2. Unfortunately, we have warring in the world, so the youngest minds, the brilliant minds, are sent off to war. I think that, you know, you have brilliant people with great possibilities and that's why I really am not really for war. I really am not.
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#3. 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.
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#4. 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.
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#5. When you're moving in the positive, your destination is the brightest star.
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#6. 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.
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#7. 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.
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#9. There are people who have let the problems of today lead them to conclude that for them life is not the way.
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#10. Smoking cigarettes and writing something nasty on the wall, teacher sends you to the Principal's office down the hall.
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#12. 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.
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#13. 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.
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#14. Mama gives you money for Sunday school, you trade yours for candy after church is through.
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#17. Even though we sometimes would not get a thing, we were happy with the joy the day would bring.
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#18. 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.
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#19. I always wanted my mother to be Queen for a Day. I always used to watch that show that came on television.
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#20. We all have hearts ... If you have a heart, love somebody. If you have enough heart, love everybody.
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#21. Evil, why do you infest the purest thoughts with hatred?
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#22. 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.
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#23. I was so bad. Out of control. So glad I turned out to be a nice guy.
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#24. When you believe in things that you don't understand, then you suffer.
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#25. Trying your best to bring the water to your eyes, thinking it might stop her from woopin' your behind.
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#26. Why has there never been a holiday where peace is celebrated all throughout the world?
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#28. I want to take all the pain that I feel and celebrate and turn it around.
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#29. Here is my music. It is all I have to tell you how I feel. Know that your love keeps my love strong.
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#30. Change your words into truths and then change that truth into LOVE ...
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#31. Don't need cars cause we've learned to fly on Saturn.
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#32. The Lord that I serve says the impossible is unacceptable.
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#33. 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.
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#34. 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
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#35. 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.
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#36. 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.
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#37. 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.
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#38. 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.
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#39. 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.
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#40. Every day I searched for the star
That never was in the sky
Now I see that star is on the earth
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#41. Handicaps are really to be used another way to benefit yourself and others.
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#42. Now some folks say that we should be glad for what we have. Tell me, would you be happy in Village Ghetto Land?
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#43. There's a Place in the Sun, where there's hope for everyone.
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#44. For the most part, I feel really comfortable with what I've given to the people. I want to give it to them again.
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#46. 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.
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#47. 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.
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#48. 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.
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#50. The way the world is right now, we need more love,
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#51. 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.
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#52. Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision.
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#53. Ya gots to work with what you gots to work with.
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#54. 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.
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#55. Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.
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#56. We know the things that are not good and are right. Those things that we know are wrong, we've got to fix them.
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#57. There's only one true king of rock 'n' roll. His name is Chuck Berry.
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#58. 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.
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#59. Use your heart to love somebody. And If your heart is big enough, use your heart to love EVERYBODY
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#60. 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.
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#61. Mama is the greatest teacher, teacher of love, fearlessness and compassion.
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#63. I guess people expect or figure me to be a lot of different things.
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#64. One of many joyful moments with BB King was him letting me play 'Lucille.'
... The thrill will never be gone ...
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#67. Brother says he's telling about you playing Doctor with that girl.
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#68. A frowning face can't bring out the beauty that you are.
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#69. The right to bear arms? What about the right to live?
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#70. Those yesterdreams were just a cruel and foolish game we used to play, yester-me, yester-you, yesterday.
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#71. You know, I have seven children, so I guess I know some things about life.
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#72. It could have been worse. I could have been born black.
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#73. There are a lot of things happening that show us that this, right now, is a time to love.
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#74. 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.
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#75. You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
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#76. Did you know that true love asks for nothing?
Her Acceptance is the way we pay.
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#77. Heaven help the roses if the bombs begin to fall
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#78. 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.
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#79. My father really was not the dominant person who raised the family, it was my mother who raised the family.
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#80. 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
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#82. 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.
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#83. God gave me life to continue to do things that I would never have done.
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#84. Troubled heart you'll know, problems have solutions, trust and I will show.
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#85. 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.
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#86. I might do something in Arabic. I might do something in Hebrew.
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#87. 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.
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#88. 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.
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#89. I have enough money to satisfy myself for a lifetime.
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#90. Baby, everything is alright, uptight, out of sight.
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#91. Families buying dog food now, starvation roams the streets. Babies die before their born, infected by the grief.
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#93. Until we Dream of Life and Life becomes a Dream ...
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#94. Kenny Burrell is a great musician and his music has helped to make me what I am today.
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#95. 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.
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#97. I've had some incredibly triumphal things happen in my life.
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#98. Some people have a desire to be with the same sex. But that's them.
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#99. Just because a record has a groove don't make it in the groove.
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#100. 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."
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