Yoko Ono Quotes
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I gave you my life, you gave me my life. Like a gush of wind in my hair. Why do we forget what's been said And play the game of life with our hearts?
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Marriage is a gamble, let's be honest.
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People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication.
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Healing yourself is connected with healing others.
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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.
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We live too long for one marriage.
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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.
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Power is power. It's energy. And if you get big, big energy, you can use that in a good way.
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Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you'll start to see a big difference in your life.
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Distance doesn't exist, in fact, and neither does time. Vibrations from love or music can be felt everywhere, at all times.
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Reality can be elastic, and I want to see how elastic it can be, you know?
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To have a relationship that is pure and passionate and beautiful - I think people are scared of having that now. Especially guys.
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People are still thinking of solving problems by violence and war, and that has to stop.
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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.
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The war industry people are very together; they know exactly what they want; they don't even have to talk to each other. The peace industry people are just intellectuals who are very critical of each other... Unless the peace industry is powerful, we're always going to have war. It is as simple as that.
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Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.
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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.
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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.'
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You can be lonely when you have a guy living with you.
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I'm free from holding personal anger because I can express what I want through my music.
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Women artists are still treated differently from men.
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What we do really affects the world. Most of us think we can't do anything, but it really isn't true.
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All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!
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Why do they cover Paul's songs but never mine?