Yoko Ono Quotes
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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.
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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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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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When you go to war, both sides lose totally.
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Why do they cover Paul's songs but never mine?
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I have been known as the minimal and conceptual artist for over five decades. I think I haven't changed much.
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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 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.
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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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My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.
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People just love to be entertained, and in order to entertain them, you have to do things in a way that they understand.
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I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.
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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.
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But only art and music have the power to bring peace.
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The only instrument I can play is piano. Whenever I make songs at home, I play the piano and make them on the piano.
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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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My first husband met me as a career woman, and the second did, too. I was lucky.
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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.
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No one person could have broken up a band, especially one the size of the Beatles.
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Music is like my security blanket.
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Many incredible artists die before they were famous.
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Sound as medium has an incredible elasticity. So, of course, it is tempting for artists of other fields to try something with sounds. Why not? We are living in the age when there is no limit in gathering all forms of art and music to mix it together if you so desire.
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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.