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Quotes of the Day for 13 May 2010 – Stevie Wonder
Stevland Hardaway Judkins was born six weeks premature at Saginaw, Michigan on this day in 1950. Blood vessels in his eyes had not yet developed causing his retinas to detach, he was blind. He took to music at a very early age, playing piano, harmonica, drums, and bass. At age eleven, Motown Records CEO Berry Gordy signed him the Tamla label under the name "Little Stevie Wonder". At thirteen he had his first major hit, "Fingertips (Pt. 2)". At 21 he let his contract expire and produced two albums independently, giving him the bargaining strength to demand full artistic control and the rights to his own songs, which Motown had never allowed, not to mention a better royalty rate. He's been making hits ever since, with over thirty singles in the top ten and 22 Grammy Awards.
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The quotes:
Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision.
- Stevie Wonder
Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
- Stevie Wonder
Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!
- Stevie Wonder
My mother would cry about my blindness and the hopelessness of my ever seeing, but I told her I wasn't sad. I believed God had something for me to do.
- Stevie Wonder
Ya gots to work with what you gots to work with.
- Stevie Wonder
You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
- Stevie Wonder
It's my new single — please buy it so we can get Christmas gifts for the kids this year.
- Stevie Wonder
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