Top 120 Stevie Wonder Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Even though we sometimes would not get a thing, we were happy with the joy the day would bring.”

— Stevie Wonder

102. “I feel thankful to God, first and foremost, allowing me to enjoy this ‘smell the roses’ kind of thing.”

— Stevie Wonder

103. “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.”

— Stevie Wonder

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

— Stevie Wonder

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

— Stevie Wonder

106. “My father really was not the dominant person who raised the family, it was my mother who raised the family.”

— Stevie Wonder

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

— Stevie Wonder

108. “Baby, everything is alright, uptight, out of sight.”

— Stevie Wonder

109. “Are you happy when you stick a needle in your vein?”

— Stevie Wonder

110. “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

111. “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

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

— Stevie Wonder

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

— Stevie Wonder

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

— Stevie Wonder

115. “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

116. “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

117. “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

118. “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

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

— Stevie Wonder

120. “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

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. “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

123. “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

124. “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

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

— Stevie Wonder

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

— Stevie Wonder

127. “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

128. “Shoob-be-doo-be-doo-da-day.”

— Stevie Wonder

129. “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

130. “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

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

— Stevie Wonder

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

— Stevie Wonder

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

— Stevie Wonder

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

— Stevie Wonder

135. “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

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