Stevie wonder quotes

Gun violence is real. People don't come back.

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

Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!

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.

Disrespecting one's ethnicity or their religious preference, on and on and on, if they have a disability, is not anything that has to do with when we talk about democracy. Equality.

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.

I just called to say, 'I love you.

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

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

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.

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.

Fear's what puts dreams to sleep.

The Lord that I serve says the impossible is unacceptable.

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

We can't live in a place of fear.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Music at its essence is what gives us memories.

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

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

I'm still experimenting.

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.

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.

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

We have to be respectful to one another.

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

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.

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

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

The way the world is right now, we need more love.

Sometimes I wish I could drive a car, but I'm gonna drive a car one day, so I don't worry about that.

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

I'm concerned about how accessible guns are.

The power has to be in your desire to see everyone thrive.

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.

Let us come together before we're annihilated.

Problems have solutions.

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.

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.

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.

Don't need cars cause we've learned to fly on Saturn.

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

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.

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.

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.

I am all for stem cell research.

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.

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

Law and order comes from having respect for one another.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Ya gots to work with what you gots to work with.

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

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.

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.

When I grow up I wanna be like Omar

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.

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

As much as I've been blessed to do, this is for me when I want to do what I really want to do as far as helping people. Obviously helping people with disabilities, I want - my desire is to in my lifetime be a very integral part of getting this country and the world completely accessible to everyone with any disability. There should be nowhere that we can't go, and there should be nothing that we can't do. Considering that we have the disability, whichever one it might be, we will be so on point with being able to do that we need little to no assistance.

You can't hear me? Read my lips!

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

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.

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

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

It feels better to love than to hate.

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

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.

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.

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

I see the light in your smile.

We all know that love is truly the key. Anyone who tries to make anyone think that things of destruction has anything to do with God or Allah, they're a liar.

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.

I'm believing that miracles and blessings still exist.

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.

Music can measure how broad our horizons are. My mind wants to see to infinity.

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

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

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

Time is long but life is short.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

I am not a normal man.

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

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

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

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

Heaven help the roses if the bombs begin to fall

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Isn't she lovely made from love?

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.

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.

Hate knows that love is the cure.

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."

Did you know that true love asks for nothing?

It could have been worse. I could have been born black.

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

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

If you don't ask, you don't get.

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

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

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

Minds ripen at very different ages.

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.

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.

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

Heaven help the man who kicks the man who has to crawl.

You know, I have seven children, so I guess I know some things about life.