Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a ...
STEVIE WONDER Of course I read Braille, yes.
STEVIE WONDER We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.
STEVIE WONDER Eyes lie if you ever look into them for the character of the person.
STEVIE WONDER You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
STEVIE WONDER Sometimes, I feel I am really blessed to be blind because I probably would not last a minute if I we...
STEVIE WONDER I am what I am. I love me! And I don't mean that egotistically - I love that God has allowed me ...
STEVIE WONDER What I'm not confused about is the world needing much more love, no hate, no prejudice, no bigot...
STEVIE WONDER I used to say that if something happened to my mother, I wanted to die with her. That's because ...
STEVIE WONDER God gave me life to continue to do things that I would never have done.
STEVIE WONDER Minds ripen at very different ages.
STEVIE WONDER I can't say that I'm always writing in my head but I do spend a lot of time in my head writi...
STEVIE WONDER You know, I always when people ask me, like, what is my most favorite song, I quote Duke Ellington, ...
STEVIE WONDER This is like one thing that I've tried to do, and I think successfully, that when you realize th...
STEVIE WONDER Do you know, it's funny, but I never thought of being blind as a disadvantage, and I never thoug...
STEVIE WONDER When I was a child, kids used to make fun of me because I was blind. But I just became more curious,...
STEVIE WONDER Sometimes I wish I could drive a car, but I'm gonna drive a car one day, so I don't worry ab...
STEVIE WONDER The right to bear arms? What about the right to live?
STEVIE WONDER You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
STEVIE WONDER I think honestly, some people who think they're gay, they're confused.
STEVIE WONDER I want to take all the pain that I feel and celebrate and turn it around.
STEVIE WONDER Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us cele...
STEVIE WONDER Let us come together before we're annihilated.
STEVIE WONDER I am not a normal man.
STEVIE WONDER Ya gots to work with what you gots to work with.
STEVIE WONDER Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
STEVIE WONDER Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision.
STEVIE WONDER If you don't ask, you don't get.
STEVIE WONDER Time is long but life is short.
STEVIE WONDER Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, th...
STEVIE WONDER People can misconstrue closeness for love.
STEVIE WONDER I might sing a gospel song in Arabic or do something in Hebrew. I want to mix it up and do it differ...
STEVIE WONDER My mother would cry about my blindness and the hopelessness of my ever seeing, but I told her I wasn...
STEVIE WONDER Among all the wonderful things we have, we don't seem to have a time to love. And to me that's the f...
STEVIE WONDER Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision.
STEVIE WONDER A friend had a couple of pairs made up for me, ... I think the album is coming out.
STEVIE WONDER You should definitely choose this as a profession.
STEVIE WONDER This song helped me deal with it,
STEVIE WONDER Sometimes we listen to too many commentators about things that don't affect their lives because they...
STEVIE WONDER I don't know if they provide inspiration,
STEVIE WONDER Handicaps are really to be used another way to benefit yourself and others.
STEVIE WONDER It's a long road to the Derby, but I think he's got the capabilities to do it, ... He's never done a...
STEVIE WONDER The most important thing is, when I do give the music, I'm satisfied with it, that it speaks for wha...
STEVIE WONDER We must begin now to make the public aware that this is an important democratic right we must protec...
STEVIE WONDER I know! I know! But it's really coming out. They say they want it out for September 20th, I say the ...
STEVIE WONDER What I like so much about Dennis is that he knows all the scuttlebutt that's going on around our spo...
STEVIE WONDER The feeling of handing over the masters is you've done you're part and you're excited it's complete,
STEVIE WONDER I really do seek to create music that is timeless, ... Each project takes on its own life, and the s...
STEVIE WONDER I'm a married man, I understand,
STEVIE WONDER Little Stevie Wonder/The 12 Year Old Genius.
STEVIE WONDER My Old Kentucky Home.
STEVIE WONDER We're not living in a one-dimensional society. You can't just talk about, you know, the horrible thi...
STEVIE WONDER This was great. Let's do it again, soon.
STEVIE WONDER [Franklin received the Lena Horne Award for outstanding career achievements and gave two rousing per...
STEVIE WONDER In a time where racism was at a premium high,
STEVIE WONDER The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.
STEVIE WONDER I am all for anything that is going to better equip a person who is physically challenged in any way...
STEVIE WONDER I'm still experimenting.
STEVIE WONDER I was never afraid to put this out. That was never the issue -- ever. I wanted it to sound contempor...
STEVIE WONDER Of all the needs that we have right now, more than anything we need a time for love,
STEVIE WONDER Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as...
STEVIE WONDER So What the Fuss,
STEVIE WONDER [With all the no-shows, it was up to an old vet to keep up the festivities. Aretha Franklin , on han...
STEVIE WONDER When you're moving in the positive, your destination is the brightest star.
STEVIE WONDER I remember the beginnings of the Kurzweil reading machine. I was one of the first to meet Ray Kurzwe...
STEVIE WONDER I do feel that there's a need to have some love out there,
STEVIE WONDER Heaven help the roses if the bombs begin to fall
STEVIE WONDER Let us come together before we're annihilated.
STEVIE WONDER My first encounter with a Kelly was not on a musical scale. It was from primary school. Dave and I w...
WAYNE WONDER It's always a live experience - anything that happens around you. It's so easy to just put i...
WAYNE WONDER What I say is from my heart. You must be sincere. So when I sing a song, people are supposed to feel...
WAYNE WONDER Anything I sing is supposed to be genuine. It's not supposed to be make-believe or I'm makin...
WAYNE WONDER That's me, man - I'm a lover not a fighter.
WAYNE WONDER People call me Wayne Wonder and it also goes back to football because I could do mad skills with the...
WAYNE WONDER My grandmother always told me you must keep to your old roads and stick to your original friends and...
WAYNE WONDER I am a conservative type of person, so sometimes when I'm chilling with myself, people always co...
WAYNE WONDER We are giving you a new service in Dubai, we call it Wonder Bus. In this bus, everyone can get previ...
WONDER BUS This is the perfect example that things are continuing to move. And something finally gave way.
LAUREN WONDER Our engineers are out here drilling to determine the depth of the fissures, how far down the holes a...
LAUREN WONDER We can't clear it until it's safe to do so, when the weather lets up and our guys can go up there an...
LAUREN WONDER I am pretty fearless, and you know why? Because I don't handle fear very well; I'm not a goo...
STEVIE NICKS I think they all went too far. Their jeans got too low, their tops got too see-through. Personally, ...
STEVIE NICKS He and I were about as compatible as a rat and a boa constrictor.
STEVIE NICKS I'm sorry to say my dear wife is a dreamer, and as she dreams she gets paler and leaner. Then be off...
STEVIE SMITH It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrot...
STEVIE NICKS When you're rich and famous you are the dominant force in a relationship, even if you try hard n...
STEVIE NICKS I wear glasses and suits, so I guess I am an indie artist.
STEVIE JACKSON My generation fought very hard for feminism, and we fought very hard to not be labeled as you had to...
STEVIE NICKS I hated Chris, my brother. I would pull his hair and kick him, until one day my father gave him perm...
STEVIE NICKS I may be smelly and I may be old, Rough in my pebbles, reedy in my pools, But where my fish float by...
STEVIE SMITH I'm the guitar player in Belle & Sebastian.
STEVIE JACKSON If you're an unattractive girl who's trying to be beautiful with Botox, forget it. If you ar...
STEVIE NICKS But for me, I knew that if I had a baby, I would have to take care of that baby, and I wouldn't ...
STEVIE NICKS I don't think Auden liked my poetry very much, he's very Anglican.
STEVIE SMITH Little girls think it's necessary to put all their business on MySpace and Facebook, and I think it'...
STEVIE NICKS I didn't want to look like anyone else - like Janis Joplin or Grace Slick. That's why I neve...
STEVIE NICKS By the time I was five, I was a little diva.
STEVIE NICKS We don't need to have somebody that's gonna make sure they pay for our market bills. It's like we ha...
STEVIE NICKS When you're in a band with three writers, three great writers, you only get one third of the wri...
STEVIE NICKS My other family is Fleetwood Mac. I don't need the money, but there's an emotional need for ...
STEVIE NICKS I think they all went too far. Their jeans got too low, their tops got too see-through. Personally, ...
STEVIE NICKS All poetry has to do is to make a strong communication. All the poet has to do is listen. The poet i...
STEVIE SMITH Bad women poets are better characters, they seldom... get drunk... go to prison... shoot the pianist...
STEVIE SMITH Nobody heard him, the dead man, But still he lay moaning. I was much further out than you thought, a...
STEVIE SMITH Not Waving but Drowning.
STEVIE SMITH The Englishwoman is so refined/ She has no bosom and no behind.
STEVIE SMITH I'm alive today, therefore I'm just as much a part of our time as everybody else. The times will jus...
STEVIE SMITH I wish I had something exciting to tell you, but if I won $140,000, my share would be 70 (thousand)....
STEVIE SMITH I'm sorry to say my dear wife is a dreamer,/ And as she dreams she gets paler and leaner./ Then be o...
STEVIE SMITH I don't think Auden liked my poetry very much, he's very Anglican.
STEVIE SMITH If there wasn't death, I think you couldn't go on.
STEVIE SMITH These thoughts are depressing I know. They are depressing,
I wish I was more cheerful, it is m...
STEVIE SMITH I preferred not to be laden down with a big instrument. If you're behind a guitar, you get used ...
STEVIE NICKS I watched Janis one time - we opened for her - and that's the only time I ever saw her. We opene...
STEVIE NICKS Oh Lion in a peculiar guise,
Sharp Roman road to Paradise,
Come eat me up, I'll pay thy to...
STEVIE SMITH I like the spontaneity; I like to just get people together and hit 'record' so hopefully it ...
STEVIE JACKSON Men are going to go out on the road and they're going to find other women. So if you really want...
STEVIE NICKS Into the dark night
Resignedly I go,
I am not so afraid of the dark night
As the f...
STEVIE SMITH Everything on this record is what I really wanted to say, and I'm back to being the poet I always th...
STEVIE NICKS This Englishwoman is so refined, She has no bosom and no behind.
STEVIE SMITH The truly incredible thing is we're realizing that you can perform a two-and-a-half-hour gig without...
STEVIE NICKS Well, if the earthquake happens, I've got my steel-toed shoes and some rope, and we'll get down a mo...
STEVIE NICKS If you have stage fright, it never goes away. But then I wonder: is the key to that magical performa...
STEVIE NICKS I am pretty fearless, and you know why? Because I don't handle fear very well; I'm not a good terrif...
STEVIE NICKS You know, the man of my dreams might walk round the corner tomorrow. I'm older and wiser and I think...
STEVIE NICKS I was not going to be a stupid girl singer. I was going to be way more than that.
STEVIE NICKS Rock and menopause do not mix. It is not good, it sucks and every day I fight it to the death, or, a...
STEVIE NICKS If you see somebody running down the street naked every single day, you stop looking up.
STEVIE NICKS The world is come upon me, I used to keep it a long way off, But now I have been run over and I am i...
STEVIE SMITH Even in my really bad, drugged-out days, I didn't go away. I still toured, still did interviews....
STEVIE NICKS If we can get back to the great singer/songwriters, music will just improve overnight.
STEVIE NICKS Do you want to be an artist and a writer, or a wife and a lover? With kids, your focus changes. I do...
STEVIE NICKS All my feather stuff is in L.A. at a temperature-controlled stage-storage place. I keep all my good ...
STEVIE NICKS Singing is the love of my life, but I was ready to give it all up because I couldn't handle people t...
STEVIE NICKS I preferred not to be laden down with a big instrument. If you're behind a guitar, you get used to b...
STEVIE NICKS When you're rich and famous you are the dominant force in a relationship, even if you try hard not t...
STEVIE NICKS For 70 nights, right across America, I've been getting out there with two ex-lovers and we've been p...
STEVIE NICKS I made a conscious decision that I was not going to have children. I didn't want others raising them...
STEVIE NICKS It is the privilege of the rich
To waste the time of the poor
To water with tears in secre...
STEVIE SMITH Prate not to me of suicide, Faint heart in battle, not for pride I say Endure, but that such end den...
STEVIE SMITH Time cast a spell on you but you won't forget me, I know I could have loved you, but you would not l...
STEVIE NICKS When you grow up as a girl, the world tells you the things that you are supposed to be: emotional, l...
STEVIE NICKS You know, the man of my dreams might walk round the corner tomorrow. I'm older and wiser and I t...
STEVIE NICKS Love me, Love me, I cried to the rocks and the trees, And Love me, they cried again, but it was only...
STEVIE SMITH I'll have your heart, if not by gift my knife Shall carve it out. I'll have your heart, your life.
STEVIE SMITH Love is only one fine star away.
STEVIE NICKS Growing up is never easy. You hold on to things that were. You wonder what's to come. But that night...
THE WONDER YEARS I remember a place... a town... a house like a lot of houses... a yard like a lot of other yards... ...
THE WONDER YEARS I never knew it would be this hard to lose something I never had.
THE WONDER YEARS Once upon a time there was a girl I knew, who lived across the street. Brown hair, brown eyes. When ...
THE WONDER YEARS Change is never easy. You fight to hold on. You fight to let go.
THE WONDER YEARS I guess sometimes the ground can shift between your feet. Sometimes your footing slips. You stumble....
THE WONDER YEARS All our young lives we search for someone to love. Someone who makes us complete. We choose partners...
THE WONDER YEARS Over the course of the average lifetime you meet a lot of people. Some of them stick with you throug...
THE WONDER YEARS Growing up happens in a heartbeat. One day you're in diapers; the next day you're gone. But the memo...
THE WONDER YEARS So, my big brother was playing guitar and I figured I'd try it too.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN The problem with taking amps to a shop is that they come back sounding like another amp.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN I kept listening, kept going to see people, kept sitting in with people, kept listening to records. ...
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN The way people come into your life when you need them, it's wonderful and it happens in so many ...
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN You know, there's a big lie in this business. The lie is that it's okay to go out in flames....
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN The way I play, I go through a set in a year. So I put '58 Gibson Jumbo Bass frets on all my nec...
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN You see, we are here, as far as I can tell, to help each other; our brothers, our sisters, our frien...
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN Some of us can be examples about going ahead and growing, and some of us, unfortunately, don't make ...
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN This has got to come to a screeching halt.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN After I changed the string we picked up right where we left off - and punched back in at the same ti...
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN You see, we are here, as far as I can tell, to help each other; our brothers, our sisters, our frien...
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN But between sets I'd sneak over to the black places to hear blues musicians. It got to the point...
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN I've put my life back together, but it's all a growing process and that's neat, too, bec...
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN I mix them with my brains, sir.
JOHN OPIE ("THE CORNISH WONDER") I never knew until that moment how bad it could hurt to lose something you never really had.
FROM THE TELEVISION SHOW THE WONDER YEARS