Stevie Wonder Quotes - Page 6

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.

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

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.

Blind don't mean you can't, you know, listen.

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

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

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

Clearly, love is love, between a man and a woman, a woman and a man, a woman and a woman and a man and a man.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Eyes lie if you ever look into them for the character of the person.

My mother told me, if you call yourself 'Little' Stevie Wonder, you'd better be as good as Little Willie John.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Until we Dream of Life and Life becomes a Dream.

I have enough money to satisfy myself for a lifetime.

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 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.

I listen a lot to rap, and I'm inspired to take it, to use it in another way, to get the message across.