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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True artists are prophets. I don't want to be that prophetic in that sense because it's so lonely.

Yoko Ono

We are all dreamers creating the next world, the next beautiful world for ourselves and for our children.

Yoko Ono

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.

Yoko Ono

I'm kind of honored to be a dragon lady. The dragon is a very powerful, mythical animal.

Yoko Ono

Every moment in our lives is a miracle we should enjoy instead of ignoring.

Yoko Ono

The process is always the same. I get an inspiration for a new song, I put it down on paper immediately so I won't lose it. When I am ready to go to the studio with it, I play it a few times on the piano and edit, add, and type the lyrics and take it...

Yoko Ono

Some people think that movements, such as the movements in ballet, are a higher cultural expression, whereas some are just dirt. I think it is elitist to think that a trained movement is more acceptable than untrained and possibly unrehearsed movemen...

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I am extremely rebellious. I have this strong, defiant spirit.

Yoko Ono

Artists and musicians of the Sixties were definitely into clothes.

Yoko Ono

When you are totally depressed, you should try giggling. Just make yourself laugh. Force yourself to laugh.

Yoko Ono

I like artists who have something to say, not wallpaper.

Yoko Ono

You can be very wild and still be very wise.

Yoko Ono

Even my mother told me: 'You are a handsome woman, but you're not pretty. Pretty girls don't have those big bones.'

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Energy is so important. If you don't have it, don't bother with rock and roll.

Yoko Ono

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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I get very nervous before I get on the stage, but once I'm on the stage, I'm just, you know, me. Nothing hurts me.

Yoko Ono

Losing my daughter was a very serious pain. There was always some empty space in my heart.

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Mothers are not supposed to give guidance.

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I'm just being normal. A normal woman. Well, I don't know what a normal woman is, but I'm a woman and I'm Yoko and I've never changed that.

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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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My first husband met me as a career woman, and the second did, too. I was lucky.

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