Top 120 Stevie Wonder Quotes (2024 Update)

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

— Stevie Wonder

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

— Stevie Wonder

3. “Time is long but life is short.”

— Stevie Wonder

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

— Stevie Wonder

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5. “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

6. “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

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

— Stevie Wonder

8. “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

9. “You can’t base your life on other people’s expectations.”

— Stevie Wonder

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10. “When you’re moving in the positive, your destination is the brightest star.”

— Stevie Wonder

11. “Isn’t she lovely made from love?”

— Stevie Wonder

12. “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

13. “When you believe in things that you don’t understand, then you suffer.”

— Stevie Wonder

14. “Hate knows that love is the cure.”

— Stevie Wonder

15. “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

16. “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

17. “It could have been worse. I could have been born black.”

— Stevie Wonder

18. “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

19. “There’s a Place in the Sun, where there’s hope for everyone.”

— Stevie Wonder

20. “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

21. “I’m too high, but I ain’t left the ground.”

— Stevie Wonder

22. “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

23. “I’m believing that miracles and blessings still exist...”

— Stevie Wonder

24. “I am not a normal man.”

— Stevie Wonder

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

— Stevie Wonder

26. “Music at its essence is what gives us memories.”

— Stevie Wonder

27. “You can’t hear me? Read my lips!”

— Stevie Wonder

28. “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

29. “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

30. “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

31. “Until we Dream of Life and Life becomes a Dream...”

— Stevie Wonder

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

— Stevie Wonder

33. “When I grow up I wanna be like Omar.”

— Stevie Wonder

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

— Stevie Wonder

35. “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

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

— Stevie Wonder

37. “I’m glad I’m blind and can’t see it.”

— Stevie Wonder

38. “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

39. “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.”

— Stevie Wonder

40. “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.”

— Stevie Wonder

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

— Stevie Wonder

42. “I see the light in your smile.”

— Stevie Wonder

43. “It feels better to love than to hate.”

— Stevie Wonder

44. “If you don’t ask, you don’t get.”

— Stevie Wonder

45. “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

46. “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

47. “Just because a record has a groove don’t make it in the groove.”

— Stevie Wonder

48. “There’s only one true king of rock ‘n’ roll. His name is Chuck Berry.”

— Stevie Wonder

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

— Stevie Wonder

50. “Evil, why do you infest the purest thoughts with hatred?”

— Stevie Wonder