Stevie Wonder Zitate

Stevie Wonder ist ein US-amerikanischer Soul- und Pop-Sänger, Komponist, Multiinstrumentalist sowie Produzent. Seine ersten Erfolge feierte er ab 1961 mit dem Motown-Label, bei dem er noch heute seine Alben veröffentlicht.Anfang der 1970er Jahre stieg er zu einem der erfolgreichsten Unterhaltungskünstler der USA auf. Er gilt als „Erneuerer“ schwarzer Musik, deren Spielarten – Spiritual, Blues, R&B, Soul, Funk – er beherrschte und fortentwickelte. Besonders die Jahre 1971 bis 1976 mit den Alben Music of My Mind, Talking Book , Innervisions , Fulfillingness’ First Finale und Songs in the Key of Life gelten als seine künstlerisch bedeutendste Phase.Gleichzeitig engagierte Stevie Wonder sich zunehmend politisch; mit seiner 1980 gestarteten Kampagne für Menschenrechte erreichte er, dass der Geburtstag von Martin Luther King seit 1986 ein Feiertag in den USA ist. Wonder wurde mehrfach mit den wichtigsten Preisen der Unterhaltungsindustrie wie dem Grammy, Oscar oder Golden Globe ausgezeichnet. 1989 wurde er für seine Verdienste um die Soul-Musik in die Rock and Roll Hall of Fame aufgenommen. Außerdem ist er seit 2009 UN-Botschafter des Friedens. Wikipedia  

✵ 13. Mai 1950
Stevie Wonder Foto
Stevie Wonder: 51   Zitate 0   Gefällt mir

Stevie Wonder: Zitate auf Englisch

“The sensation of seeing is not one that I have and not one that I worry about.”

As quoted in Stevie Wonder (1978) by Constanze Elsner, and Jet Vol. 53, No. 22 (16 February 1978), p. 60
1970s
Kontext: Sometimes I think I would love to see … just to see the beauty of flowers and trees and birds and the earth and grass. … Being as I've never seen, I don't know what it's like to see. So in a sense I'm complete. Maybe I'd be incomplete if I did see. Maybe I'd see some things that I didn't want to see... the beauty of the earth compared to the destruction of man. You see, it's one thing when you are blind from birth, and you don't know what it's like to see, anyway, so it is just like seeing. The sensation of seeing is not one that I have and not one that I worry about.

“Sometimes I think I would love to see … just to see the beauty of flowers and trees and birds and the earth and grass. … Being as I've never seen, I don't know what it's like to see. So in a sense I'm complete.”

As quoted in Stevie Wonder (1978) by Constanze Elsner, and Jet Vol. 53, No. 22 (16 February 1978), p. 60
1970s
Kontext: Sometimes I think I would love to see … just to see the beauty of flowers and trees and birds and the earth and grass. … Being as I've never seen, I don't know what it's like to see. So in a sense I'm complete. Maybe I'd be incomplete if I did see. Maybe I'd see some things that I didn't want to see... the beauty of the earth compared to the destruction of man. You see, it's one thing when you are blind from birth, and you don't know what it's like to see, anyway, so it is just like seeing. The sensation of seeing is not one that I have and not one that I worry about.

“He's a man with a plan,
Got a counterfeit dollar in his hand,
He's misstra know-it-all.”

He's Misstra Know-It-All
Song lyrics, Innervisions (1973)

“No more lying friends wanting tragic ends,
Though they do pretend,
They won't go when I go.”

They Won't Go When I Go
Song lyrics, Fulfillingness' First Finale (1974)

“We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.”

As quoted in The Story of Stevie Wonder (1976) by James Haskins, Ch. 1 : Growing Up in a World of Darkness
1970s

“And I can't go on this way,
With it stronger every day,
But being too shy to say
That I really love you.”

Too Shy To Say
Song lyrics, Fulfillingness' First Finale (1974)

“Where is your God?'
That's what my friends ask me,
And I say it's taken him so long
'Cause we've got so far to come.”

Heaven Is 10 Zillion Light Years Away
Song lyrics, Fulfillingness' First Finale (1974)

“Would you like to go with me
Down my dead end street?
Would you like to come with me
To village ghetto land?”

Village Ghetto Land
Song lyrics, Songs In The Key of Life (1976)

Ähnliche Autoren

David Bowie Foto
David Bowie 16
britischer Musiker, Sänger, Produzent, Schauspieler und Mal…
Tim Burton Foto
Tim Burton 6
US-amerikanischer Autor, Produzent und Filmregisseur
Michael Jackson Foto
Michael Jackson 2
US-amerikanischer Musiker
Paul McCartney Foto
Paul McCartney 8
britischer Musiker, Singer-Songwriter, Komponist sowie mehr…
John Cage Foto
John Cage 7
US-amerikanischer Komponist
Elvis Presley Foto
Elvis Presley 7
US-amerikanischer Sänger, Musiker und Schauspieler
George Harrison Foto
George Harrison 2
englischer Musiker und Komponist
Jim Morrison Foto
Jim Morrison 43
US-amerikanischer Rock n Roll-Sänger und Lyriker
Andy Warhol Foto
Andy Warhol 100
amerikanischer Grafiker, Künstler, Filmemacher und Verleger
Alfred Hitchcock Foto
Alfred Hitchcock 20
britischer Filmregisseur und -produzent