Yoko Ono Quotes
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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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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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We are all dreamers creating the next world, the next beautiful world for ourselves and for our children.
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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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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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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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No one person could have broken up a band, especially one the size of the Beatles.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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Music is like my security blanket.
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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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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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When I turned 60, it didn't bother me at all.
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Mothers are not supposed to give guidance.
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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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I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.
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Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.