Yoko Ono Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Marriage is a gamble, let's be honest.
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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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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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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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You can be lonely when you have a guy living with you.
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Why do they cover Paul's songs but never mine?
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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.
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When you go to war, both sides lose totally.
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Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.
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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.
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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.
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In the '60s we fought for peace, when the Vietnam war was on. We were against the cops and against the politicians, and there was a lot of waving banners and all that. And I think in a way, just as they were enjoying that machoism of war, we were enjoying the machismo of being anti-war, you know?
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I just want to be healthy and stay alive and keep my family going and everything and keep my friends going and try to do something so that this world will be peaceful. That is the most ambitious and the most difficult thing, but I'm there trying to do it.
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Women artists are still treated differently from men.
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No one person could have broken up a band, especially one the size of the Beatles.
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I think if you give in and accept society's stereotypes, then you start thinking, 'I cannot dance till late at night because I'm 70.'
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We are all dreamers creating the next world, the next beautiful world for ourselves and for our children.