Stevie Wonder Quotes

My Catholic faith is my life. Any artist, if he is to be faithful to how he perceives the world and to the nature of his creative gifts, cannot divorce the two. To create is to love. To love is to create.

Among whom the gods bless, high on the list are the music people, who tune into celestial vibe-brations and give mortals a taste of immortal sensations.

Searching for music is like searching for God. They're very similar. There's an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unseeable, the unspeakable, all those things, comes into being a composer and to writing music and to searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don't exist.

God knows why - no pun intended - but every time I write a song, I feel a need to touch on religion.

I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!

I think God is the most unexplored territory in rock and roll music.

Faith is a really important part of my life and inspires me in all facets of my life, including my songwriting and my singing.

I have always felt that art, especially music, is but a demonstration of God.

The music that I have learned and want to give is like worshipping God. It's absolutely like a prayer.

I'm such a huge fan, and I've done classes of all Lady Gaga music. And she's just someone who evokes freedom and love for her fans and passion in what she does. Lady Gaga, I'll take you out for a salad anytime.

I really believe what people have said before, that God is love. For me, it's music. For you, it might be writing, or for somebody else, it might be soccer or whatever.

I think God gave me an inner dictionary. If you play the right music that my heart loves, lyrics just come right to me.

Definitely being spiritual helps me create good music because music is ultimately the sound of the god.

All we know how to do is write music and love God.

My music is religion, and my religion is music. They are one.

Fathers, I do not practice. I'm not religious in life, but when I perform "The Creation of the World" and when my soul is touched by the confrontation of "Good and Evil," then God enters in me.

Religion indeed enlightens, terrifies, subdues; it gives faith, it inflicts remorse, it inspires resolutions, it draws tears, it inflames devotion, but only for the occasion.

I'm not the type to turn to drugs and alcohol, but I do have a profound devotion to art and music - and children.

What counts is art. painting, a kind of painting that is quite different from what everyone makes it out to be. But what kind? Will God or someone else give me the strength to breathe the breath of prayer and mourning into my paintings, the breath of prayer for redemption and resurrection?

Music and love are the wings of the soul.

Will God or someone give me the power to breathe my sigh into my canvases, the sigh of prayer and sadness, the prayer of salvation, of rebirth?

I think people who truly can live a life in music are telling the world, ‘You can have my love, you can have my smiles. Forget the bad parts, you don’t need them. Just take the music, the goodness, because it’s the very best, and it’s the part I give most willingly

Lots of things inspire me. My friends and my family, obviously. I really like to travel, so very inspired by traveling and meeting new people along the way. Also, music and the arts, like film and television. I like to read a lot too; that stuff inspires me.

It's that transformative nature of love and music and yoga that really inspires me.

God has blessed me with the in-born talent for which I pour my heart out in the form of music.