110+ Stevie Wonder Quotes On Disability, Soulful And Joyful

Stevie Wonder is an American musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, and multi-instrumentalist. He is considered to be one of the most successful and influential musical performers of the 20th century. He has won 25 Grammy Awards, making him one of the most awarded artists of all time. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Stevie Wonder on love, disability, life.

Top 10 Stevie Wonder Quotes

1. We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.
2. Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
3. Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision.
4. Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.
5. 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.
6. You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
7. It feels better to love than to hate.
8. There may be a brighter star. But through my eyes the light of you is all I see.
9. 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.
10. 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 Image Quotes

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there. — Stevie Wonder

Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision. — Stevie Wonder

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

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

Stevie Wonder Short Quotes

• I am all for stem cell research.
• I'm too high, but I ain't left the ground.
• Eyes lie if you ever look into them for the character of the person.
• We have to be respectful to one another.
• I was so bad. Out of control. So glad I turned out to be a nice guy.
• Don't need cars cause we've learned to fly on Saturn.
• I just called to say, 'I love you.
• Gun violence is real. People don't come back.
• Ya gots to work with what you gots to work with.
• Are you happy when you stick a needle in your vein?

Stevie Wonder Quotes About Love

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

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

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

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

Did you know that true love asks for nothing? — Stevie Wonder

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

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

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

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

Stevie Wonder Quotes About Life

When you're moving in the positive, your destination is the brightest star. — Stevie Wonder

Hold onto your dreams 'cause they're always worth havin'. Hold on to your dreams til the day your life is said and done. — 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

Time is long but life is short. — Stevie Wonder

The truth is that we have to, as American citizens, stop thinking that this life that we're living, the things that we're dealing with, is some reality TV show. This is real life, real children, real situations. — 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

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

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. — 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

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

Stevie Wonder Quotes About Feel

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

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

I think honestly, SOME people who think they’re gay, they’re confused. People can misconstrue closeness for love. People can feel connected, they bond. I’m not saying all [gay people are confused]. Some people have a desire to be with the same sex. But that’s them. — 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 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

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

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

Stevie Wonder Famous Quotes And Sayings

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there. — Stevie Wonder

Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision. — Stevie Wonder

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

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

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. — Stevie Wonder

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

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

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

I know that there'll be a continuation of making the world more accessible for people with disabilities. — 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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Oh, thank you love With all my heart and soul I thank you love Each day that comes and goes I thank you love I thank you 'cause you gave me true love — Stevie Wonder

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

Law and order comes from having respect for one another. — Stevie Wonder

All my children are my babies. They're our babies. — 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

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

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. — Stevie Wonder

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

Sneaking out the back door to hand out with those hoodlum friends of mine. — Stevie Wonder

A lack of communication between citizens and policemen is real stuff. — Stevie Wonder

Disrespect is real stuff. — Stevie Wonder

We have to truly become a united people of the United States of America, and divisiveness cannot make that happen. — Stevie Wonder

It's my new single - please buy it so we can get Christmas gifts for the kids this year. — Stevie Wonder

Mama is the greatest teacher, teacher of love, fearlessness and compassion. — Stevie Wonder

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

We have a marriage of people of various cultures coming together. It's not a joke. It's real. — Stevie Wonder

I really do seek to create music that is timeless, ... Each project takes on its own life, and the songs from "A Time To Love" are the most appropriate for the statement I wanted to make...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...It is a different kind of lyric; it's very picturesque. I can see everything that I'm writing, I can visualize all those things happening. — Stevie Wonder

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

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 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

I am not a normal man. — Stevie Wonder

Minds ripen at very different ages. — Stevie Wonder

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

Many years ago, but not so long ago, there were those who said, 'Well, you have three strikes against you: You're black, you're blind and you're poor,' But God said to me, 'I will make you rich in the spirit of inspiration, to inspire others as well as create music to encourage the world to a place of oneness and hope, and positivity.' I believed Him and not them. — Stevie Wonder

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

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

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

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

People love to hear music on their personal devices, but the issue really becomes, if you're able to download music, you should know this download and the quality of it is going to be of the highest, and that it has a value to it and on it. — Stevie Wonder

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

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

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

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

I guess people expect or figure me to be a lot of different things. — 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 really do seek to create music that is timeless, ... Each project takes on its own life, and the songs from A Time To Love are the most appropriate for the statement I wanted to make. — Stevie Wonder

I know there are thousands of images of me. — Stevie Wonder

I'm concerned about how accessible guns are. — Stevie Wonder

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. — 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

Of all the needs that we have right now, more than anything we need a time for love. — Stevie Wonder

Fear's what puts dreams to sleep. — Stevie Wonder

Just because a record has a groove don't make it in the groove. — Stevie Wonder

Life Lessons by Stevie Wonder

1. Stevie Wonder has taught us to never give up on our dreams, no matter what challenges we may face. He has shown us that hard work and dedication can take us far, as he has achieved incredible success despite his disability.
2. He has also taught us the importance of staying true to ourselves and our values, and to always strive to make a positive impact on the world.
3. Finally, Stevie Wonder has shown us the power of music to bring people together, and to bring joy and hope to others.