Yoko Ono Quotes

John wrote with a very deep love for the human race and a concern for its future. ~ Yoko Ono

It is sad that the air is the only thing we share. No matter how close we get to each other, there is always air between us. ~ Yoko Ono

Luckily we never injected because both of us were totally scared about needles. So that probably saved us. And the other thing that saved us was our connection was not very good. ~ Yoko Ono

Artists are magicians and I definitely think John Lennon was a Wizard. ~ Yoko Ono

Not being appreciated for 40 years or something ... It feels like I was accused of something that I didn't do, which was breaking up the Beatles. That was like being somebody who is in prison without having done anything wrong. ~ Yoko Ono

I don't believe in a chronological way of doing things. ~ Yoko Ono

Transform jealousy to admiration, and what you admire will become part of your life. ~ Yoko Ono

I never thought I would go into the dance charts. ~ Yoko Ono

Is truth always positive? Of course. Once the truth comes out, you know, it's all right. We're scared that if the truth comes out that it's not all right. It's the other way around. ~ Yoko Ono

Basically there are two types of people in the world: people who are confident because they know they have the ability to create, and then people who have been demoralised, who have no confidence in themselves because they have been told they have no creative ability, but must just take orders. The Establishment likes people who take no responsibility and cannot respect themselves. ~ Yoko Ono

Imagine a dolphin dancing in the sky. Let it dance with joy. Think of yourself at the bottom of the ocean watching. ~ Yoko Ono

All my life, I have been in love with the sky. Even when everything was falling apart around me, the sky was always there for me. ~ Yoko Ono

You can't dance if you got too much muck in your head. ~ 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

In the Second World War, I was a little girl. I was evacuated in my country. ~ Yoko Ono

When I turned 60, it didn't bother me at all. ~ Yoko Ono

Loneliness is equal to the radius of one's awareness. ~ Yoko Ono

What the Beatles did was something incredible, it was more than what a band could do. We have to give them respect. ~ Yoko Ono

Nobody's life is a bed of roses. We all have crosses to bear, and we all just do our best. I would never claim to have the worst situation. There are many widows, and many people dying of AIDS, many people killed in Lebanon, people starving all over the planet. So we have to count our lucky stars. ~ Yoko Ono

I did not break up the Beatles. You can't have it both ways. If you're going to blame me for breaking the Beatles up, you should be thankful that I made them into myth rather than a crumbling group. ~ Yoko Ono

Bless you for your jealousy; it is a sign of empathy. ~ Yoko Ono

The computer is my favourite invention. I feel lucky to be part of the global village. I don't mean to brag, but I'm so fast with technology. People think it all seems too much, but we'll get used to it. I'm sure it all seemed too much when we were learning to walk. ~ Yoko Ono

Yoko Ono is someone who's music I've discovered more recently. The current cd rereleases of her albums all had bonus tracks recorded just with a tape recorder and I'm really into these at the moment because they have a great intimate feel. ~ Marcel Dzama

I think of John every day. I do try to block it, but December 8th is not the only day I think of him. ~ Yoko Ono

Life keeps getting better. If anything, you start to carry a certain pride in having survived all those years. ~ Yoko Ono

All I'm saying is that perhaps we can make a revolution without violence. ~ Yoko Ono

I think people place limitations on each other and on ourselves. There is a great fear of expressing ourselves, of making creativity happen. ~ Yoko Ono

All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds! ~ Yoko Ono

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

Music is something that even when you close your eyes it gets into your body. ~ Yoko Ono

The sky is always there for me, while my life has been going through many, many changes. When I look up the sky, it gives me a nice feeling, like looking at an old friend. ~ Yoko Ono

I love to work. Doing things we love is how we relax, I think. ~ Yoko Ono

When you go through a negative situation, don't think about it. Make it positive. ~ Yoko Ono

Art is an effort to make you walk a half an inch above ground. ~ Yoko Ono

We artists have the dignity to tell the truth to the people, unlike politicians. ~ Yoko Ono

Every moment in our lives is a miracle we should enjoy instead of ignoring. ~ Yoko Ono

Most of the fans of John Lennon and maybe John and Yoko are younger than me. ~ 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

Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous. ~ Yoko Ono

Keep going until your efforts start to make things better in your hometown. ~ Yoko Ono

Use your blood to paint. Keep painting until you faint. Keep painting until you die. ~ Yoko Ono

What we do really affects the world. Most of us think we can't do anything, but it really isn't true. ~ Yoko Ono

We need to really do something about the world. Otherwise, we're all going to blow up together. ~ Yoko Ono

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

I really feel that artists or musicians are controversial people. Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity. If people are not doing that, they're not artists - they're artisans. ~ Yoko Ono

I was being hated for about 40 or 50 years by the whole world, but it did not destroy me, and it did not ruin my health. And the reason is because I just did not answer them. I had my own life. ~ Yoko Ono

The regret of my life is that I have not said 'I love you' often enough. ~ Yoko Ono

There's a long life ahead of you and it's going to be beautiful, as long as you keep loving and hugging each other. ~ Yoko Ono

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

My work was not embraced for many decades. I would have killed myself if getting embraced affected me so much. ~ Yoko Ono

Remember, each one of us has the power to change the world. Just start thinking peace, and the message will spread quicker than you think. ~ Yoko Ono

I don't think you make a choice to be an artist. There was no decision for me. I've been expressing myself this way since I can remember. ~ Yoko Ono

There's many women now who think, 'Surely we don't need feminism anymore, we're all liberated and society's accepting us as we are'. Which is just hogwash. It's not true at all. ~ Yoko Ono

Please know that being 80 is not a scary thing. When you're 80, your life is much freer. ~ Yoko Ono

World peace is one project that we have to do together. ~ Yoko Ono

I have to be pretty inclusive. I have to be pretty much inside of me rather than going out and finding out what people are doing. I don't have the time to. I just listen to my mind, in a way. ~ Yoko Ono

Performance art is going to be the future. Plays on Broadway are so restricted. But performance art is like haikus, just one line thing. And it's more casual but more interesting. ~ Yoko Ono

I have a woman inside my soul. ~ Yoko Ono

Every drop in the ocean counts. ~ Yoko Ono

Sound as medium has an incredible elasticity. So, of course, it is tempting for artists of other fields to try something with sounds. Why not? We are living in the age when there is no limit in gathering all forms of art and music to mix it together if you so desire. ~ Yoko Ono

Mirror becomes a razor when it's broken. A stick becomes a flute when it's loved. ~ Yoko Ono

Even my mother told me: 'You are a handsome woman, but you're not pretty. Pretty girls don't have those big bones.' ~ 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

Jesus, Denny." she muttered, "I felt like fucking Yoko Ono. ~ Sibylla Matilde

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

Women are put in a position of feeling embarrassed about their bodies. It's so ridiculous, but also astounding - we have to always be apologetic about having created the human race. ~ Yoko Ono

My life has always been unplanned. So when something comes along, I feel like, Why not give it a try? It's fun to experiment like that. ~ Yoko Ono

Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know. ~ Yoko Ono

I think something that's very important for us to communicate is usually very simple. Like breathing: Breathing is very simple. You don't do a dissonant 9th harmony or something in breathing. You just breathe, you know. I think that's how it is with very important messages. ~ Yoko Ono

Nothing is written in stone. So don't prepare yourself for a long and lucrative career. You might die tomorrow. Your gold holdings might become dust. Just make the music you want to make now and enjoy it. ~ Yoko Ono

We've been filled with great treasure for one purpose: to be spilled. ~ Yoko Ono

What a beautiful future it will be! Don't worry about life being boring. It will never be. ~ Yoko Ono

There are things you can never take, no matter how strong you are. ~ Yoko Ono

My career? I never think of it as a 'career.' Art and music and all those things that I'm creating are just part of me. ~ Yoko Ono

I have the outsider's vision, which is creating wisdom I can share with the world. The fact that I am misunderstood has always given me an added impetus to work on communication to bridge the gap. ~ Yoko Ono

I'm just being normal. A normal woman. Well, I don't know what a normal woman is, but I'm a woman and I'm Yoko and I've never changed that. ~ Yoko Ono

I was born into a very important family in Japan. My grandfather was a descendant of the Emperor, and we were very wealthy. ~ Yoko Ono

Scary discovery of the day: Most people who RT @yokoono's tweets do so without irony. ~ James Taranto

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

Indie music is 'it' now. It's kind of a revolution to the music: 1980s, 1990s music was getting very sanitized; they were complying with the music industry. Music was getting more and more dead in a way. Now, because of the social climate that's very severe, the artists are compelled to start being real. It's really great that indie music is now. ~ Yoko Ono

I see so many activists ... who are artists because they feel that they have the power of communication. ~ Yoko Ono

Yoko Ono, quite simply, did things that John Lennon did not dare. ~ Philip Norman

There is an incredible love in creating art unless somebody is saying, 'Hey, let's just make money,' because it doesn't work when you do it that way. If you are aiming for that, forget it. ~ Yoko Ono

Your thoughts create reality. The most pragmatic way to create world peace is to use your power of visualization. Think Peace, Act Peace, Spread Peace, Imagine Peace. Your thoughts will soon cover the planet. The most important thing is to believe in your power. It works. ~ Yoko Ono

When John Lennon left the Beatles and started making music with Yoko Ono, many people scoffed at the idea. How could this talented man with so many hit songs give it all up? Well, we all know it was love, but beyond that, it was a leap of faith to try something new. ~ Ashley Bryan

I only ever asked two people to work with me as a partner. One was Paul McCartney and the other Yoko Ono. Paul and me were the Beatles. ~ John Lennon

The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves. ~ Yoko Ono

I grew up in Greenwich Village. Dad was friends with John Lennon and Yoko Ono. ~ Yancy Butler

I get very nervous before I get on the stage, but once I'm on the stage, I'm just, you know, me. Nothing hurts me. ~ Yoko Ono

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

The problem with Double Fantasy was the arrangement whereby they alternated John Lennon tracks with Yoko Ono tracks. You couldn't escape Yoko for more than four minutes at a time. ~ Adrian McKinty

I get very sad when I think about Vietnam where there seems to be no choice but violence. This violence goes on for centuries perpetuating itself. ~ Yoko Ono

Events are the best teacher for us. You try to learn from people, there is always some bend to it. ~ 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

I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it ~ Yoko Ono

At least I had that, one guy understood me. ~ Yoko Ono

The process is always the same. I get an inspiration for a new song, I put it down on paper immediately so I won't lose it. When I am ready to go to the studio with it, I play it a few times on the piano and edit, add, and type the lyrics and take it to the studio. Sometimes I don't have anything on paper. ~ Yoko Ono

Many of my songs were dance orientated from way back. That's because I love dance! When I hear a dance number, just hearing the first eight bars, it immediately makes my bod start moving and dancing. ~ Yoko Ono

It is very difficult for us to know we love somebody because it is an insecure position to be in. But in the end, it is important to be honest about your love because life is not that long. ~ Yoko Ono

The whole world is starting to realize that it was the most unwise thing for our society to have ignored women power, to run the society with male priorities. ~ Yoko Ono