Yoko Ono Quotes

Artists and musicians of the Sixties were definitely into clothes.

I saw sorrow turning into clarity.

Life with another person is always difficult.

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

Think of the Earth as a turning point in eternity. Think of the Earth as a meeting point in infinity.

You should do something that will make your heart dance once a day. If you can't do that because you're too depressed, then do something that will make somebody else's heart dance.

Life keeps getting better. If anything, you start to carry a certain pride in having survived all those years.

I don't particularly consider myself just an artist. I'm a woman - I'm a human being.

I'm a politician. Politics is just a convenience for our life and we just have to create a beautiful world together that would be very convenient for us and just enjoyable.

I was born into a very important family in Japan. My grandfather was a descendant of the Emperor, and we were very wealthy.

I don't work for a long time on anything. I don't have too much time in life.

I think people place limitations on each other and on ourselves. There is a great fear of expressing ourselves, of making creativity happen.

All women are feminists. Being a feminist is allowing woman to be natural, for what she is, whatever it is. All of us can be natural and we're all feminists in that sense.

If you're criticized then you can use it as an experience. Compliments, you can't use.

I never wanted to be a professional artist; I think that's limiting.

The people have got to trust in themselves.

The amazing thing is that we could live in the world together peacefully, feed the world, shelter the world. We have that capability both spiritually and technologically.

The universe is a space bigger than all of us we are part of.

If you go back to all my albums, they're all confessional.

Women have become stronger, and there's a backlash. Men have become terribly possessive. I find it much easier to get on with women.

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.

Everything has complexity. Everything has simplicity. You just grab it.

Women artists are still treated differently from men.

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.

I just like to explore all sorts of different forms - no, 'explore' is not even the word - enjoy. You don't want to limit yourself to a particular form.

Performance art is going to be the future. Plays on Broadway are so restricted. But performance art is like haikus, just one line thing. And it's more casual but more interesting.

I am aware of the sufferings of women in India, which is also the suffering of women in many, many countries on our planet. My heart is filled with empathy and love for them.

One day, the dance charts will be the biggest chart in the music world. Because we all need to dance. This planet will be a fun planet when the judges in court will end the day with a dance!

Many of my songs were dance orientated from way back. That's because I love dance! When I hear a dance number, just hearing the first eight bars, it immediately makes my bod start moving and dancing.

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

Countries have lost their culture because what they wanted was money. Money became the running theme in every country and culture was sacrificed.

Art is like breathing for me. If I don't do it, I start to choke.

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.

Someday I'll be remembered for The phone calls I never made Letters I never mailed And the stories I never finished telling anyone.

The boats outside the window were always still I wondered if one of them would take me to the ocean.

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

The only way you can better John is by copying him exactly.

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

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.

Bad stories are written about me because the press knows they can make me into a weeping dog and few people will object.

All I can say is, it's not very easy for a woman to be associated with The Beatles.

When I got pregnant, I had to concentrate on being pregnant for a whole nine months, even though I knew it was ruining my career at the time.

I respect Lady Gaga very much.

I have been known as the minimal and conceptual artist for over five decades. I think I haven't changed much.

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.

When you go through a negative situation, don’t think about it. Make it positive.

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.

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.

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

What we do really affects the world. Most of us think we can't do anything, but it really isn't true.