Yoko 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

I was afraid that if she went on much longer, her fingers would scrape away my skin, rip my flesh, crush my bones. The pillow was damp with saliva, and I wanted to scream. ~ Yoko Ogawa

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

Yoko had 10 years and I had 10 years and I would rather have had the 10 years I had than the ones she did. I had the raw talent and the raw human being, before the sycophants arrived. ~ Cynthia Lennon

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

Someone like John would want to end the Beatle period and start the Yoko period. He wouldn't like either to interfere with the other. ~ Paul McCartney

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

I just sat all night looking at him, saying, 'Wow, it's incredible.' When Yoko woke up, I told her, 'He's fine,' and we cried. ~ John Lennon

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

I was always watching you. This could have been a breathless declaration of love or a final farewell. ~ Yoko Ogawa

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

Solving a problem for which you know there's an answer is like climbing a mountain with a guide, along a trail someone else has laid. In mathematics, the truth is somewhere out there in a place no one knows, beyond all the beaten paths. And it's not always at the top of the mountain. It might be in a crack on the smoothest cliff or somewhere deep in the valley. ~ Yoko Ogawa

I'm a big fan of Yoko, one of those weird people who really love her music, and who argues with people all the time, because people do write her off. ~ Boy George

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

The ancient Greeks thought there was no need to count something that was nothing. And since it was nothing, they held that it was impossible to express it as a figure. So someone had to overcome this reasonable assumption, someone had to figure out how to express nothing as a number. This unknown man from India made nonexistence exist. ~ Yoko Ogawa

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

They want to hold onto something they never had in the first place. Anybody who claims to have some interest in me as an individual artist or even as part of the Beatles has absolutely misunderstood everything I ever said if they can't see why I'm with Yoko. And if they can't see that, they don't see anything. They're just jacking off to - it could be anybody. Mick Jagger or somebody else. Let them go jack off to Mick Jagger, okay? I don't need it. ~ John Lennon

For a torture to be effective, the pain has to be spread out; it has to come at regular intervals, with no end in sight. The water falls , drop after drop after drop, like the second hand of a watch, carving up time. The shock of each individual drop is insignificant, but the sensation is impossible to ignore. At first, one might manage to think about other things, but after five hours, after ten hours, it becomes unendurable. The repeated stimulation excites the nerves to a point where they literally explode, and every sensation in the body is absorbed into that one spot on the forehead
indeed, you come to feel that you are nothing but a forehead, into which a fine needle is being forced millimeter by millimeter. You can't sleep or even speak, hypnotized by a suffering that is greater than any mere pain. In general, the victim goes mad before a day has passed. ~ Yoko Ogawa

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

It seemed as though the secret of the universe had miraculously appeared right here at our feet, as though God's notebook had opened under our bench. ~ Yoko Ogawa

Among the many things that made the Professor an excellent teacher was the fact that he wasn't afraid to say 'we don't know.' For the Professor, there was no shame in admitting you didn't have the answer, it was a necessary step toward the truth. It was as important to teach us about the unknown or the unknowable as it was to teach us what had already been safely proven. ~ Yoko Ogawa

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

It was as if a tiny crack had opened somewhere in him and was growing, tearing him to pieces. If he had simply been angry, I might have found a way to calm him, but I had no idea how to put him back together once he came apart. ~ Yoko Ogawa

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

But still, this feels worse than a normal rejection... ~ Yoko Nogiri

Maybe there's a place out there where people whose hearts aren't empty can go on living. ~ Yoko Ogawa

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

When I'm curled up in his arms like this, I can never tell how my body looks to him. I worry that I seem completely ridiculous, but I have the ability to squeeze into any little space he leaves for me. I fold my legs until they take up almost no room at all, and curl in my shoulders until they're practically dislocated. Like a mummy in a tomb. And when I get like this, I don't care if I never get out; or maybe that's exactly what I hope will happen. ~ Yoko Ogawa

There's nothing scarier than female unity. ~ Yoko Maki

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 was glad that I was able to erase your voice. Did you know that an insect will fall silent if you cut off its antennae? It will just sit there, as if frozen, and even refuse to eat. The same as you, really. ~ Yoko Ogawa

He discounted the value of his own efforts, and seemed to feel that anyone would have done the same. ~ Yoko Ogawa

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

Whether at his desk or at the dinner table, when he talked about numbers, primes were most likely to make an appearance. At first, it was hard to see their appeal. They seemed so stubborn, resisting division by any number but one and themselves. Still, as we were swept up in the Professor's enthusiasm, we gradually came to understand his devotion, and the primes began to seem more real, as though we could reach out and touch them. ~ Yoko Ogawa

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

All these things we had long since forgotten she gathered up one by one in her hands, caressing and warming them until they came back to life. It was as if she had come in place of the goddess of the rainbow to offer her grace and affection. She was perhaps the only one who ever truly loved the Hotel Iris. ~ Yoko Ogawa

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

No one can erase the stories! ~ Yoko Ogawa

A problem has a rhythm of its own, just like a piece of music. Once you get the rhythm, you get the sense of the problem as a whole, and you can see where the traps might be waiting. ~ Yoko Ogawa

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

She began to sing, but I could not make out the words. It must have been a love song, to judge from the slightly pained expression on her face, and the way she tightly gripped the microphone. I noticed a flash of white skin on her neck. As she reached the climax of the song, her eyes half closed and her shoulders thrown back, a shudder passed through her body. She moved her arm across her chest to cradle her heart, as though consoling it, afraid it might burst. I wondered what would happen if I held her tight in my arms, in a lovers' embrace, melting into one another, bone on bone ... her heart would be crushed. The membrane would split, the veins tear free, the heart itself explode into bits of flesh, and then my desire would contain hers - it was all so painful and yet so utterly beautiful to imagine. ~ Yoko Ogawa

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

...for a piece of famous fluffiness that doesn't just pretend about what real lives can be like, but moves on into one of the world's least convincing pretences about what people themselves are like, consider the teased and coiffed nylon monument that is 'Imagine': surely the My Little Pony of philosophical statements. John and Yoko all in white, John at the white piano, John drifting through the white rooms of a white mansion, and all the while the sweet drivel flowing. Imagine there's no heaven. Imagine there's no hell. Imagine all the people, living life in - hello? Excuse me? Take religion out of the picture, and everybody spontaneously starts living life in peace? I don't know about you, but in my experience peace is not the default state of human beings, any more than having an apartment the size of Joey and Chandler's is. Peace is not the state of being we return to, like water running downhill, whenever there's nothing external to perturb us. Peace between people is an achievement, a state of affairs we put together effortfully in the face of competing interests, and primate dominance dynamics, and our evolved tendency to cease our sympathies at the boundaries of our tribe. ~ Francis Spufford

They say it'll be even hotter tomorrow. that's how we spend the summer. complaining about the heat. ~ Yoko Ogawa

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

First one of you to call me Yoko," Todd warned as he stepped up, "is a dead man. ~ Ophelia London

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

A heart has no shape, no limits. That's why you can put almost any kind of thing in it, why it can hold so much. It's much like your memory, in that sense. ~ Yoko Ogawa

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