Top 120 Stevie Wonder Quotes (2025 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. “When you believe in things that you don’t understand, then you suffer.”

— Stevie Wonder

13. “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

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

— Stevie Wonder

17. “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

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. “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

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

— Stevie Wonder

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

— Stevie Wonder

22. “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

23. “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

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

— Stevie Wonder

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

— Stevie Wonder

26. “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

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

— Stevie Wonder

28. “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

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

— Stevie Wonder

30. “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

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

— Stevie Wonder

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

— Stevie Wonder

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

— Stevie Wonder

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

— Stevie Wonder

35. “I am not a normal man.”

— Stevie Wonder

36. “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

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

— Stevie Wonder

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

— Stevie Wonder

39. “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

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

— Stevie Wonder

41. “Problems have solutions.”

— Stevie Wonder

42. “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

43. “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

44. “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

45. “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

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

— Stevie Wonder

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

— Stevie Wonder

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

— Stevie Wonder

49. “The Lord that I serve says the impossible is unacceptable.”

— Stevie Wonder

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

— Stevie Wonder