Stevland Hardaway Morris, known professionally as Stevie Wonder, is an American singer, songwriter, musician and record producer. A prominent figure in popular music during the second half of the 20th century, Wonder is one of the most successful songwriters and musicians. Profoundly inspirational Stevie Wonder quotes will get you through anything when the going gets tough and help you succeed in every aspect of life.
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Famous Stevie Wonder Quotes
Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle! — 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 am not a normal man. — Stevie Wonder
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
The right to bear arms? What about the right to live? — Stevie Wonder
Eyes lie if you ever look into them for the character of the person. — 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
Let us come together before we’re annihilated. — Stevie Wonder
God gave me life to continue to do things that I would never have done. — Stevie Wonder
Sometimes I wish I could drive a car, but I’m gonna drive a car one day, so I don’t worry about that. — Stevie Wonder
You know, I have seven children, so I guess I know some things about life. — Stevie Wonder
I’ve had some incredibly triumphal things happen in my life. — Stevie Wonder
Minds ripen at very different ages. — Stevie Wonder
I know there are thousands of images of me. — Stevie Wonder
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. — Stevie Wonder
I want to take all the pain that I feel and celebrate and turn it around. — Stevie Wonder
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
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
I guess people expect or figure me to be a lot of different things. — 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
I do believe in women. I really do. — Stevie Wonder
Some people have a desire to be with the same sex. But that’s them. — Stevie Wonder
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. — Stevie Wonder
Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there. — Stevie Wonder
I might do something in Arabic. I might do something in Hebrew. — Stevie Wonder
Time is long but life is short. — Stevie Wonder
I am all for stem cell research. — Stevie Wonder
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. — Stevie Wonder
I’ve had threats. — 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
I listen a lot to rap, and I’m inspired to take it, to use it in another way, to get the message across. — Stevie Wonder
Of course I read Braille, yes. — Stevie Wonder
I’m concerned about how accessible guns are. — Stevie Wonder
You can’t base your life on other people’s expectations. — Stevie Wonder
Ya gots to work with what you gots to work with. — 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
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
Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn’t mean he lacks vision. — Stevie Wonder
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. — Stevie Wonder
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. — Stevie Wonder
If you don’t ask, you don’t get. — Stevie Wonder
People can misconstrue closeness for love. — Stevie Wonder
Blind don’t mean you can’t, you know, listen. — Stevie Wonder
I’m still experimenting. — Stevie Wonder
I think honestly, some people who think they’re gay, they’re confused. — 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
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
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
First of all, I’m no better than the next person. — Stevie Wonder
My father really was not the dominant person who raised the family, it was my mother who raised the family. — Stevie Wonder
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. — Stevie Wonder
