Top 389 Quotes & Sayings by Yoko Ono - Page 3

DJs are in incredible competition, musically. And they are the most musically creative and sensitive people in all the music charts. I am amazed how they are.

I respect Lady Gaga very much.

Women have become stronger, and there's a backlash. Men have become terribly possessive. I find it much easier to get on with women.

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

I always thought that I was an important musician. If you don't have that confidence, why would you go on and do it?

We're growing up together, the human race. And we've discovered a lot of things that we didn't know. We're finding our way. Instead of thinking about doomsday all the time, think about how beautiful the world is. We're all together, and together we're getting wiser.

When people don't understand my work, I don't feel like explaining.

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

Money is not everything. We don't need billions and trillions of dollars.

Dancing is a very healthy thing to do for our body.

I think it's nice to let people know that there is an invisible part of the world. I think there are many people now who are interested in the invisible world.

When I got pregnant, I had to concentrate on being pregnant for a whole nine months, even though I knew it was ruining my career at the time.

Many incredible artists die before they were famous.

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.

The universe, when you leave it alone, is going to be beautiful.

All I can say is, it's not very easy for a woman to be associated with The Beatles.

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.

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

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

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.

It's a waste to not say anything with art.

I think there is a big difference between the music business and music. And my relationship is to music, not music business. I think the business will keep changing, but music won't. Music will be there.

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.

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

This society is driven by neurotic speed and force accelerated by greed and frustration of not being able to live up to the image of men and woman we have created for ourselves; the image has nothing to do with the reality of people.

If a woman writes about a domestic situation, everyone automatically assumes that it's about her.

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.

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.

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

I always believed that my work should be unfinished in the sense that I encourage people to add their creativity to it, either conceptually or physically. Back in the 1960s, I was calling for 'Unfinished Music,' number one, and number two, with my artwork - I was taking unfinished work into the gallery. And that's how I was looking at it.

I'm kind of honored to be a dragon lady. The dragon is a very powerful, mythical animal.

I never thought I would go into the dance charts.

I don't have a goal. I don't limit myself to a goal.

My first husband met me as a career woman, and the second did, too. I was lucky.

Having a son is not all pleasure.

I don't think you should always stay calm in a tense situation, because you might not ever confront the problem. Maybe it's better to actually let yourself be tense - and find a solution.

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

When Orientals are attacked, they don't hit back.

I don't have time to listen to anybody's music. I'm making it, you know.

I am aware of the sufferings of women in India, which is also the suffering of women in many, many countries on our planet. My heart is filled with empathy and love for them.

Reality can be elastic, and I want to see how elastic it can be, you know?

I've always said that I use my voice as an instrument. It was something I created myself, and I said, 'Have voice, will travel.'

People just love to be entertained, and in order to entertain them, you have to do things in a way that they understand.

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.

My father was a banker, but he was an independent spirit. He was a very good pianist and very much into music.

After I was 70, I realized that, 'Okay, I would like to have another 50 years, and I probably could.' But part of me is saying, 'Maybe I'm not going to have that much time.'

I like artists who have something to say, not wallpaper.

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

Most people like to hear sounds they are used to.

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

I'm not interested so much in collaboration. You see that from the history of my albums.

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.

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.

I'm free from holding personal anger because I can express what I want through my music.

We live too long for one marriage.

Chemically speaking or biologically, we research things, but we don't know half of them. We only know our half of it - symbolically - and we don't know ourselves more than half.

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

Great Art is Great because it inspired you greatly. If it didn't, no matter what the critics, the museums and the galleries say, it's not great art for you.

People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?

When I'm putting some communication out on Twitter or Facebook or Instagram, I think that it's helping me, my brain, you know, because it's always somehow stimulated by people who are sending things to me. And it works both ways. It's great. My brain is very happy about it.