Frases de Stevie Wonder

Stevie Wonder, nome artístico de Stevland Hardaway Morris , é um cantor, compositor e ativista de causas humanitárias e sociais estadunidense.

Um dos maiores músicos da contemporaneidade, iniciou a carreira muito cedo. Assinou contrato com a Tamla Records, selo da Motown Records aos onze anos e continua com a mesma até hoje. Gravou mais de trinta sucessos que alcançaram o top ten e ganhou vinte e cinco Grammy Awards, o maior número já ganho por um artista masculino na história. Ao nascer foi-lhe dado o nome Stevland Hardaway Judkins, depois alterado para Stevland Hardaway Morris, já adulto.

Stevie Wonder é o terceiro dos seis filhos de Calvin Judkins e Lula Mae Hardaway. Devido ao nascimento prematuro, em seis semanas os vasos sanguíneos da parte de trás de seus olhos ainda não tinham chegado na parte frontal e seu crescimento abortado causou o descolamento das retinas. O termo médico para esta condição é retinopatia da prematuridade, e ela pode ter sido agravada pelo oxigênio bombeado para sua incubadora, mas não foi a principal causa de cegueira.

Quando Stevie Wonder tinha quatro anos, sua mãe deixou seu pai e se mudou com seus filhos para Detroit. Voltou a ter o nome de solteira, Lula Hardaway e mais tarde mudou o sobrenome de seus filhos para Morris. Morris permanece como o nome legal de Stevie Wonder desde então. Começou a tocar instrumentos muito cedo, incluindo piano, gaita, bateria e baixo. Durante sua infância foi ativo em um coral de igreja.

Com apenas 18 anos, Stevie Wonder se mudou para Los Angeles, trabalhando com produtores como Quincy Jones e outros. Wikipedia  

✵ 13. Maio 1950
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Stevie Wonder frases e citações

Stevie Wonder: Frases em inglês

“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
Contexto: 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
Contexto: 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)