Quotes by Yoko Ono

About Yoko Ono:

Yoko Ono is a Japanese multimedia artist, singer and peace activist who is also known for her work in avant-garde art, music, and filmmaking. She is the widow and second wife of John Lennon.
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Each time we don't say what we wanna say, we're dying.

Yoko Ono

Tape the sound of the moon fading at dawn. Give it to your mother to listen to when she's in sorrow.

Yoko Ono

You may think I’m small, but I have a universe inside my mind.

Yoko Ono

We're all water from different rivers, That's why it's so easy to meet, We're all water in this vast, vast ocean, Someday we'll evaporate together.

Yoko Ono

You are water I’m water we’re all water in different containers that’s why it’s so easy to meet someday we’ll evaporate together.

Yoko Ono

I think that all women are witches, in the sense that a witch is a magical being. And a wizard, which is a male version of a witch, is kind of revered, and people respect wizards. But a witch, my god, we have to burn them. It’s the male chauvinisti...

Yoko Ono

We don't live by just sleeping and eating. We need pride and dignity in our lives. Work gives you that.

Yoko Ono

I never want projects to be finished; I have always believed in unfinished work. I got that from Schubert, you know, the 'Unfinished Symphony.'

Yoko Ono

You can't always measure the effects of activist work; you just have to wish and pray that the message gets through.

Yoko Ono

When people don't understand my work, I don't feel like explaining.

Yoko Ono

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.

Yoko Ono

Women are put in a position of feeling embarrassed about their bodies. It's so ridiculous, but also astounding - we have to always be apologetic about having created the human race.

Yoko Ono

When you go to war, both sides lose totally.

Yoko Ono

People are still thinking of solving problems by violence and war, and that has to stop.

Yoko Ono

War is over if you want it.

Yoko Ono

In the Second World War, I was a little girl. I was evacuated in my country.

Yoko Ono

Sometimes I am happy and sometimes not. I am, after all, a human being, you know. And I am glad that we are sometimes happy and sometimes not. You get your wisdom working by having different emotions.

Yoko Ono

Author Bio

  • NameYoko Ono
  • DescriptionJapanese artist, author, and peace activist
  • AliasesY?ko Ono; Ono Y?ko; Ono Yoko
  • BornFebruary 18, 1933
  • CountryJapan
  • ProfessionPeace Activist; Film Director; Singer; Musician; Artist; Composer; Sound Artist
  • WorksWish Tree For Washington, DC