Yoko Ono Quotes
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People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication.
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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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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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Marriage is a gamble, let's be honest.
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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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You can be lonely when you have a guy living with you.
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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 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.
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It's a waste to not say anything with art.
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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.
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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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Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you'll start to see a big difference in your life.
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Mothers are not supposed to give guidance.
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Life with another person is always difficult.
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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.
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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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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.
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It's a waste of time to think that if you colored a painting red what might have happened if you painted it black.
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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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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.
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I'm kind of honored to be a dragon lady. The dragon is a very powerful, mythical animal.
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Fracking kills, and it doesn't just kill us. It kills the land, nature and, eventually, the whole world.
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What the Beatles did was something incredible, it was more than what a band could do. We have to give them respect.
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Losing my daughter was a very serious pain. There was always some empty space in my heart.