Toshihiro Ono Quotes

I long for him most
during these hot moonless nights.
I lie awake, hot,
the growing fires of passion
bursting, blazing in my heart. ~ Ono No Komachi

I must say that I always thought I had a voice, even when I was 4 years old. ~ Yoko Ono

Everything has complexity. Everything has simplicity. You just grab it. ~ Yoko Ono

Art for me is like breathing. When I stop breathing, what happens? ~ Yoko Ono

To have world peace, we all have to have a healthy understanding of what is necessary to bring World Peace. It's not something that will be dropped on our laps. We have to work for it. Until we get World Peace, I think my strongest passion stays in the effort to get it. ~ Yoko Ono

Power is not something we should be afraid of. Power is great, power is energy. And in terms of energy, the most important energy is human spiritual energy and when I say spiritual, I feel like have to be very careful, I don't mean religious, I mean the energy of the mind, the energy that exists within us. ~ Yoko Ono

I just want to be healthy and stay alive and keep my family going and everything and keep my friends going and try to do something so that this world will be peaceful. That is the most ambitious and the most difficult thing, but I'm there trying to do it. ~ Yoko Ono

Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity. ~ Yoko Ono

I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away. ~ Yoko Ono

I trust myself. You need that to survive. ~ Yoko Ono

Marriage is a gamble, let's be honest. ~ Yoko Ono

It's difficult to explain love. You want to explain water? You need a book for it. There are many different ways to explain what water is. Love is big, it's very big. I know that I have tons of it. But maybe we don't want to open up so much, and we think, maybe we don't have so much, but yes, you know that you have tons of love. We all do. Through that love we can connect, we can heal each other, we can make people, all of us, happy, joyful, and make a better world. ~ Yoko Ono

If you have too many quotes from other people in your head, you can't create. You have to keep your head empty. That's why I am constantly enjoying the sky, the park, the walk. ~ Yoko Ono

The part of her that should have been disgusted was numb. ~ Fuyumi Ono

If you go back to all my albums, they're all confessional. ~ Yoko Ono

If you have a slave around the house how can you expect to make a revolution outside it? The problem for women is that if we try to be free, then we naturally become lonely, because so many women are willing to become slaves, and men usually prefer that. ~ Yoko Ono

The amazing thing is that we could live in the world together peacefully, feed the world, shelter the world. We have that capability both spiritually and technologically. ~ Yoko Ono

People say that this new generation is so used to the Internet that their heads are already different. They can't read a book from beginning to end. That is not a tragedy. The book changes form. ~ Yoko Ono

You change the world by being yourself. ~ Yoko Ono

In your head, a sunset can go on for days ~ Yoko Ono

Be kind to yourself this evening. Buy something for yourself. Treat yourself to a meal. Look in the mirror and give yourself a smile ~ Yoko Ono

Healing yourself is connected with healing others. ~ Yoko Ono

A dream you dream alone may be a dream, but a dream two people dream together is a reality. ~ Yoko Ono

What surprises me is-even though discrimination against women and racial discrimination still exist, they have improved a lot, especially among artists. And just when I felt I could finally take a break, I encounter the age discrimination. I turned 72 and started noticing a drastic difference in people's attitudes. I started with racism and sexism in the beginning and fought them so hard and was finally ready to relax. Then, here comes ageism, and I feel like, "Give me a break!" ~ Yoko Ono

Our public officials have forgotten that they are ultimately accountable to the people who put them in office, that the information they keep in secrecy belongs to all of us. ~ Yoko Ono

He felt extremely responsible for his fans. That's why, instead of showing the best side of himself to them, he went the other way. He said, 'No, I have to be honest -let them know what I am made of. I'm not all that perfect or anything and they have to know that.' (Larry Kane quoting Yoko Ono about John) ~ Larry Kane

My beauty secret is ... nothing! I don't drink too much water. I don't eat very well. Sometimes I cheat and grab some chocolate. The best thing is to eat what you want, but not very much. ~ Yoko Ono

My husband John Lennon was a very special man. A man of humble origin, he brought light and hope to the whole world with his words and music. ~ Yoko Ono

The art world was not initially really accepting my kind of work. I was ahead of my time. ~ Yoko Ono

I feel sad that he's just a voice now. ~ Yoko Ono

Sometimes I have compared myself with a scientist or something: when you discover something and you don't expect the whole world to understand it. I always thought I was doing that kind of activity, in art and in music too. ~ Yoko Ono

O SANITY
It's only sane to be insane
Psychotic builds a castle
And neurotic lives in it
I don't know what to do with my sanity
When the world's at the verge of calamity
O' sanity, o' sanity
What am I to do with you
Drink up, shoot up, anything you please
But you're always standing behind me
Like a devil in hell
O' sanity, sanity
Why don't you let me go?
Let go, let go!
Cut it out! ~ Yoko Ono

The weight of words.
Words can be fearsome weapons, tools or means powerful! ~ Joko Ono

To me, the concept of distance is not important. Distance doesn't exist, in fact, and neither does time. Vibrations from love or music can be felt everywhere, at all times. ~ Yoko Ono

I have been known as the minimal and conceptual artist for over five decades. I think I haven't changed much. ~ Yoko Ono

Yoko [Ono] was showing me some of these Haiku in the original. The difference between them and Long fellow is immense. Instead of a long flowery poem the Haiku would say 'Yellow flower in white bowl on wooden table' which gives you the whole picture. ~ John Lennon

To have a relationship that is pure and passionate and beautiful - I think people are scared of having that now. Especially guys. ~ Yoko Ono

Be silent in a group of people
See what they reveal to you. ~ Yoko Ono

I never went to art school and I never thought of going to an art school. It was just a way of manifesting these ideas I had. Ideas came to me that I needed to express. ~ Yoko Ono

When you are totally depressed, you should try giggling. Just make yourself laugh. Force yourself to laugh. ~ Yoko Ono

However wildly
this year's cherry blossoms bloom,
I'll see them
with the plum's scent
filling my heart. ~ Ono No Komachi

I bought [John Lennon's] 'Plastic Ono Band,' and I listened to it over and over for months. It's a monumental work of genius ... ~ Lenny Kravitz

Sleep in separate cities.
Sleep in separate countries.
Sleep on separate planets.
Whisper to each other. ~ Yoko Ono

I am extremely rebellious. I have this strong, defiant spirit. ~ Yoko Ono

A man who cheats on the mother of his children, the woman with whom he works and to whom he said I love you, is not worthy of being a friend. ~ Joko Ono

To find out if you really are friends with someone, consider what you can sacrifice to help him. ~ Joko Ono

You can be lonely when you have a guy living with you. ~ Yoko Ono

Jean-Baptiste Mondino: "She's John Lennon and Yoko Ono at the same time". ~ Madonna Ciccone