Top 120 Stevie Wonder Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Are you happy when you stick a needle in your vein?”

— Stevie Wonder

102. “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

103. “Ya gots to work with what you gots to work with.”

— Stevie Wonder

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

— Stevie Wonder

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

— Stevie Wonder

106. “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

107. “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

108. “It’s my new single – please buy it so we can get Christmas gifts for the kids this year.”

— Stevie Wonder

109. “My mother told me, if you call yourself ‘Little’ Stevie Wonder, you’d better be as good as Little Willie John.”

— Stevie Wonder

110. “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

111. “Blind don’t mean you can’t, you know, listen.”

— Stevie Wonder

112. “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

113. “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

114. “I remember the beginnings of the Kurzweil reading machine. I was one of the first to meet Ray Kurzweil and purchase the reading machine in Boston. To think that the machine was at least two and a half large suitcases at the time, and now you have a camera and it takes a picture and you have sound.”

— Stevie Wonder

115. “I’ve had some incredibly triumphal things happen in my life.”

— Stevie Wonder

116. “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

117. “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

118. “Through the ages all great men have taught truth and happiness can’t be bought.”

— Stevie Wonder

119. “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

120. “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

121. “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.”

— Stevie Wonder

122. “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

123. “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

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

— Stevie Wonder

125. “I guess people expect or figure me to be a lot of different things.”

— Stevie Wonder

126. “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

127. “Shoob-be-doo-be-doo-da-day.”

— Stevie Wonder

128. “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

129. “I might do something in Arabic. I might do something in Hebrew.”

— Stevie Wonder

130. “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.”

— Stevie Wonder

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

— Stevie Wonder

132. “I have enough money to satisfy myself for a lifetime.”

— Stevie Wonder

133. “First of all, I’m no better than the next person.”

— Stevie Wonder

134. “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

135. “I think honestly, some people who think they’re gay, they’re confused.”

— Stevie Wonder

136. “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

137. “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.”

— Stevie Wonder

138. “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