Top 389 Quotes & Sayings by Yoko Ono - Page 2

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

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

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.

People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication.

Life with another person is always difficult.

Art for me is like breathing.

I'm not going to doubt my life.

Music is like my security blanket.

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.

I don't think about the future. I don't think about the past. I just think of what comes into my head at the time. So that might be about the past, that might be about the future. Or, the present.

Power is power. It's energy. And if you get big, big energy, you can use that in a good way.

The nice thing about the gallery shows is that without having to pay any money you can just go and see it.

Countries have lost their culture because what they wanted was money. Money became the running theme in every country and culture was sacrificed.

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.

We know that our cells are speaking to each other.

No one person could have broken up a band, especially one the size of the Beatles.

Women artists are still treated differently from men.

People don't remember each tree in a park but all of us benefit from the trees. And in a way, artists are like trees in a park.

Sometimes the father feels pushed out because of the connection between the mother and the child.

I think that there is incredible prejudice about witches while there is no prejudice about wizards. Words are very important, and I'm really into destroying myths.

War is over if you want it.

When I speak out against the guns or against the big corporations, some of my friends say, 'Oh Yoko, be careful. These people have all the power.' But, you know, most people don't speak out because they are frightened.

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.

In the '60s, people were still very protective of each field that they belonged to. Avant-garde artists didn't know about rock or pop or jazz. And the jazz people of course didn't want to know about any other music. They were all just kind of protecting their territory.

Japanese are very proud and workaholics. Proud workaholics.

I'm very thankful that I can make people happy just by signing my name.

Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.

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

When I was four years old, my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and composition.

I think energy is the most important thing that we can give to people as performers. Anything else is a little bit pretentious. But energy is not.

I just go with the flow, so any style can be in my music - that makes it exciting.

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

You know, something happened to me when I became 70. I started to feel a tremendous love for the human race, and life and this planet, the universe, the whole shebang.

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

I'm a very obsessive type. If I do get into it, I'll soon be there 12 hours a day. I just don't want to do that.

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.

If everybody thinks of something, then it will happen. Your mind is part of the universe. It is connected, you can use its energy.

It's a waste of time to think that if you colored a painting red what might have happened if you painted it black.

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

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.

Society tells you that when you're old you have to retire. You have to defy that.

I think that there is a sort of spiritual power that is translating into our bodies as we perform. Performers give, and giving is so important. It can heal. That is my experience, anyway.

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

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

If your life changes, we can change the world, too.

Fracking is an incredible risk to the human race, I don't know why they even thought of doing it.

My life was pretty rough.

People are still thinking of solving problems by violence and war, and that has to stop.

Women are very intelligent and not appreciated. We try to pretend that we are not clever, and it's such a pity that we can't show how clever we are.

Why do they cover Paul's songs but never mine?

Losing my daughter was a very serious pain. There was always some empty space in my heart.

You can't always measure the effects of activist work; you just have to wish and pray that the message gets through.

True artists are prophets. I don't want to be that prophetic in that sense because it's so lonely.

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

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

When you are suffering, you become more understanding about yourself, but also about other people's sufferings too. That's the first step to understand somebody is to understand their sufferings. So then love follows.

The cynicism that you have is not your real soul.

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.

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

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