Top 100 Quotes About Stevie Wonder
#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.
Stevie Wonder
#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.
Stevie Wonder
#3. 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.
Stevie Wonder
#4. Stevie Wonder doing [carpool karaoke] it was a massive turning point because he's Stevie Wonder. Like, there's no one else in the world who can go, I don't really want to do it. And you go oh, so it's good enough for Stevie Wonder but it's not good enough for you?
James Corden
#5. First of all, I'm no better than the next person.
Stevie Wonder
#6. 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.
Stevie Wonder
#7. 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
#8. 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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#9. Singing doesn't have to mean that you sound like Stevie Wonder. I love to sing. I'm not the greatest singer in the world. But, a lot of my favorite singers aren't the greatest singers in the world.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
#10. There's no place in the world you can go and not hear rock-and-roll, from Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder to Phil Collins.
Ahmet Ertegun
#11. My father was in a dance band, and I wanted to do what he did, play the saxophone, but I couldn't blow a note, so he suggested the guitar. Chromatic harmonica was actually my first instrument, and I got very good at it - not quite Stevie Wonder, but very good.
Pete Townshend
#12. My parents listened to a lot of music when I was really little. They used to listen to people like Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder and I used to be really into that.
Conor Maynard
#13. When you're moving in the positive, your destination is the brightest star.
Stevie Wonder
#14. I tell this joke about Barack Obama is the best communicator of our generation: The guy reads a teleprompter better than any Hollywood actor. John McCain, his opponent - Stevie Wonder reads a teleprompter better than John McCain.
Frank Luntz
#15. My parents took me to see Stevie Wonder when I was about 3, but my mom made us leave because everybody around us was smoking pot.
Laura Benanti
#16. 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
#17. I love Whitney Houston, Stevie Wonder, Brandi, Sade, Nat King Cole. I like the Beatles. I listen to a lot of that.
Leah LaBelle
#18. I think I'm more influenced, just in general, not by blues artists, but more by stuff from Curtis Mayfield, Stevie Wonder. Stevie Wonder is probably my biggest musical influence of all. And Donny Hathaway.
Jonny Lang
#19. Some golfers fantasize about playing in a foursome with Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, and Sam Snead. The way I hit I'd rather play in a foursome with Helen Keller, Ray Charles, and Stevie Wonder.
Bruce Lansky
#20. There were three great child singing stars: Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder and Jackie Washington.
Don Cornelius
#21. 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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#23. 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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#24. For me, the highlight was meeting all the Motown acts, as I adore black soul music. I met Stevie Wonder who I love, and Diana Ross And The Supremes. I also met The Carpenters. I was actually there in the studio when they recorded We've Only Just Begun.
Tony Blackburn
#25. Smoking cigarettes and writing something nasty on the wall, teacher sends you to the Principal's office down the hall.
Stevie Wonder
#27. Ray Charles, who said to Stevie Wonder, Maybe we're white. Never got a dinner!
Red Buttons
#28. With a voice like Ella ringing out there's no way a band can lose.
Stevie Wonder
#29. 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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#30. 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.
Stevie Wonder
#31. When I joined, I was one of the first artists to sign on to the Motown West label when they opened their first studio in California. At the studio, you'd run into Stevie Wonder, you'd run into Marvin Gaye ... it was very special.
Thelma Houston
#32. Loving you, until the day that 8 x 8 x 8 x 8 is 4.
Stevie Wonder
#33. I saw George Bush at a benefit concert actually waving at Stevie Wonder. Someone had to tell him 'he can't see you'.
Anne Robinson
#34. I live by syllogisms: God is love. Love is blind. Stevie Wonder is blind. Therefore, Stevie Wonder is God. I don't know what I'd believe in if it wasn't for that.
Stephen Colbert
#35. Mama gives you money for Sunday school, you trade yours for candy after church is through.
Stevie Wonder
#36. I think honestly, some people who think they're gay, they're confused.
Stevie Wonder
#37. There is something complete about Stevie Wonder, and one senses that he is not only exceptionally important today, but will continue to be for as long as he chooses.
Jon Landau
#39. It's my new single - please buy it so we can get Christmas gifts for the kids this year.
Stevie Wonder
#42. Even though we sometimes would not get a thing, we were happy with the joy the day would bring.
Stevie Wonder
#43. 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
#44. I always wanted my mother to be Queen for a Day. I always used to watch that show that came on television.
Stevie Wonder
#45. I wrote poetry, which got me into lyrics. Stevie Wonder, Carole King, Elton John pulled me into pop. I started singing with a band - just for fun - when I was 17. And pretty soon, I was thinking I could sing pop in English as well as Spanish.
Gloria Estefan
#46. We all have hearts ... If you have a heart, love somebody. If you have enough heart, love everybody.
Stevie Wonder
#47. Stevie Wonder always smells so good ... I'm like a DEA dog, I can smell people a block away!
Gloria Estefan
#48. Evil, why do you infest the purest thoughts with hatred?
Stevie Wonder
#49. Exploitation, mutilation, mutations, confirmation to the evils of the world.
Stevie Wonder
#50. 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.
Stevie Wonder
#51. Many of us feel we walk alone without a friend
Never communicating with the one who lives within.
Stevie Wonder
#52. I was so bad. Out of control. So glad I turned out to be a nice guy.
Stevie Wonder
#53. 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.
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#54. When you believe in things that you don't understand, then you suffer.
Stevie Wonder
#56. Trying your best to bring the water to your eyes, thinking it might stop her from woopin' your behind.
Stevie Wonder
#57. Through the ages all great men have taught truth and happiness can't be bought.
Stevie Wonder
#58. ...then I wonder, does anyone ever intend on being that kind of person?
Stevie J. Cole
#59. Why has there never been a holiday where peace is celebrated all throughout the world?
Stevie Wonder
#60. 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.
Stevie Wonder
#62. My favorites are Stevie Wonder and Marvin Gaye, but those are a little off in terms of getting Detroit right on the head. But of course, you know, "Dancing In The Streets." You can't forget the Motor City. And we can't forget the Motor City.
David Maraniss
#64. I want to take all the pain that I feel and celebrate and turn it around.
Stevie Wonder
#65. 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
#66. People have always wondered what my opinion on Stevie Wonder is. I say if he's so great how come he can't see? I mean, God doesn't make mistakes, just look at me for example.
Zach Braff
#67. Change your words into truths and then change that truth into LOVE ...
Stevie Wonder
#69. Don't need cars cause we've learned to fly on Saturn.
Stevie Wonder
#71. Writing is an art, and true art comes from inspiration, which makes me wonder what kind of fucked-up lives some of my favorite authors have led. Surely
Stevie J. Cole
#72. 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
#73. The Lord that I serve says the impossible is unacceptable.
Stevie Wonder
#74. Stevie Wonder and Diana Ross and the Jackson 5, that's what I grew up on.
Madonna Ciccone
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. 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
#78. 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
#80. 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
#81. 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
#82. Eyes lie if you ever look into them for the character of the person.
Stevie Wonder
#83. 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
#84. 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.
Stevie Wonder
#85. 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
#86. 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.
Stevie Wonder
#87. 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
#88. Every day I searched for the star
That never was in the sky
Now I see that star is on the earth
Stevie Wonder
#89. Handicaps are really to be used another way to benefit yourself and others.
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#90. To sing along with Stevie Wonder, you had to make your voice do things it was not accustomed to doing.
Michael Bolton
#91. I am grateful I got the chance to meet Stevie Wonder! He's like royalty to me and is one of my biggest inspirations.
Hunter Hayes
#92. There are people I'll always love to listen to, and I'm always ending up discovering new songs by them, which is crazy. Like Stevie Wonder.
Neil Armstrong
#93. 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
#94. I mostly listen to very popular songs. But I'm a huge fan of Stevie Wonder, and I love jazz - Glenn Fredly, Diah Lestari - so 80% jazz, 20% mixed with everything - disco, hip hop.
Joe Taslim
#95. Stevie Wonder's 'Songs in the Key of Life' was on constant shuffle throughout my childhood. I remember my dad playing some stellar Max Roach albums as well.
Daniel Breaker
#96. There's a Place in the Sun, where there's hope for everyone.
Stevie Wonder
#97. I probably wouldn't be singing if not for Michael Jackson. When I started singing, I didn't like my tone until my mom put me on to Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder, so listening to the way they used their instrument helped me get more comfortable with my own.
Ne-Yo
#98. I lived in Detroit until I was six. My older sister was living with us, and she listened to the Ohio Players and Stevie Wonder, so I grew up listening to stuff like that.
Boots Riley
#99. 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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