Top 185 Quotes & Sayings by Stevie Wonder - Page 3

Shoob-be-doo-be-doo-da-day.

When I grow up I wanna be like Omar

Heaven help the roses if the bombs begin to fall

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.

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."

Baby, everything is alright, uptight, out of sight.

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

When the truths of love are planted firm, they won't be hard to find. And words of love I speak to you will echo in your mind.

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

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.

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

I always wanted my mother to be Queen for a Day. I always used to watch that show that came on television.

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

With a voice like Ella ringing out there's no way a band can lose.

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.

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

I'm living a life. I have nine children.

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

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.

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.

Until we Dream of Life and Life becomes a Dream.

Families buying dog food now, starvation roams the streets. Babies die before their born, infected by the grief.

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.

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

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

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

I just called to say, 'I love you.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Contrary to what people are saying, you can't go by what people say, but by their spirit.

I think that to a great degree, reggae companies have become very corporate and so maybe some don't have that freedom to say whatever they want to say.

Are you happy when you stick a needle in your vein?

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.

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

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

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.

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

Disrespect is real stuff.

I'm glad I'm blind and can't see it.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Call up, ring once, hang up the phone to let me know you made it home. Don't want nothing to be wrong with my part time lover.

Exploitation, mutilation, mutations, confirmation to the evils of the world.

We know the things that are not good and are right. Those things that we know are wrong, we've got to fix them.

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

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. I also like that more and more people are committing themselves to close captioning so the deaf can really know what's going on. I like the position of making buildings more accessible by having ramps and various ways people who are paraplegic to be able to get around.

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 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.

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.

I have enough money to satisfy myself for a lifetime.

Gods induction, life's construction, these instruct will save every living thing. Can't you see that life's connected?