Yoko Ono Quotes
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Why do they cover Paul's songs but never mine?
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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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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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We are all dreamers creating the next world, the next beautiful world for ourselves and for our children.
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When you go to war, both sides lose totally.
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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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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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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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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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No one person could have broken up a band, especially one the size of the Beatles.
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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 husband John Lennon was a very special man. A man of humble origin, he brought light and hope to the whole world with his words and music.
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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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I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.
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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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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.
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Music is like my security blanket.
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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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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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My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.
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I think energy is the most important thing that we can give to people as performers. Anything else is a little bit pretentious. But energy is not.
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True artists are prophets. I don't want to be that prophetic in that sense because it's so lonely.
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Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
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Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity.