Yoko Ono Quotes

I have only one life, so I want to make sure it's a good one.

When I was four years old, my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and composition.

When Orientals are attacked, they don't hit back.

There is an incredible love in creating art unless somebody is saying, 'Hey, let's just make money,' because it doesn't work when you do it that way. If you are aiming for that, forget it.

If your judgement is clouded, you must be carrying too many things which are being a burden to you.

Walking on thin ice, I'm paying the price. I'm throwing the dice in the air. Why must we learn it the hard way And play the game of life with your heart?

Sometimes the father feels pushed out because of the connection between the mother and the child.

When people get cynical about love, they should look at us [Yoko and John Lennon] and see it is possible

The odds of not meeting in this life are so great that every meeting is like a miracle. It's a wonder that we don't make love to every single person we meet.

Tell the Earth how much you care, how beautiful she is, and how much you love her. Ask for her forgiveness for having been so careless.

Luckily we never injected because both of us were totally scared about needles. So that probably saved us. And the other thing that saved us was our connection was not very good.

I'm not giving any guidance, OK. I mean, you know, mothers are not supposed to give guidance, right? Anyway, so he's [Sean] doing his own thing.

Money is not everything. We don't need billions and trillions of dollars.

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

I'm not interested so much in collaboration. You see that from the history of my albums.

My father was a banker, but he was an independent spirit. He was a very good pianist and very much into music.

The only instrument I can play is piano. Whenever I make songs at home, I play the piano and make them on the piano.

If a woman writes about a domestic situation, everyone automatically assumes that it's about her.

Watch the sun until it comes into your body and stays as a tiny sun. It will keep your face shining even in the coldest of winter.

What the Beatles did was something incredible, it was more than what a band could do. We have to give them respect.

Japanese are very proud and workaholics. Proud workaholics.

Society tells you that when you're old you have to retire. You have to defy that.

Dance music makes us dance. Let us get off our couch and spin around!

Beatles was 20th-century folksong in the framework of capitalism; they couldn't do anything different if they wanted to communicate within that framework.

You're filled with so much life. Is there any reason why all of us are not full of life?

I never went to art school and I never thought of going to an art school. It was just a way of manifesting these ideas I had. Ideas came to me that I needed to express.

I never thought, "I'm going to be an artist". When I actually began to become successful in the art world I made it a point to say, 'I am a dilettante, I am not a professional artist", which is true.

I don't think you make a choice to be an artist. There was no decision for me. I've been expressing myself this way since I can remember.

I don't really believe in going with somebody to have tea and chat. I don't do that. It's just a waste of time.

It's better that you're criticized than complimented as a person.

When I'm inspired, I jot things down and put them in a pile.

Creativity is innate and it manifests itself in so many forms. It needs to come out somehow or it destroys you in some way.

Music is like my security blanket. The first medium that I learned was music.

We are very lucky really, because we can create our own reality, John [Lennon] and me, but we know the important thing is to communicate with other people.

I am the type of person who would do something thoroughly if someone said, "I don't think you can do it." I am extremely rebellious. I have this strong, defiant spirit.

My work was not embraced for many decades. I would have killed myself if getting embraced affected me so much.

Our thoughts determine our age.

Getting into creating in a new genre is like arriving to a new country.

You can't love someone unless you are in an equal position with them. A lot of women have to cling to men out of fear or insecurity, and that's not love - basically that's why women hate men.

All I’m saying is that perhaps we can make a revolution without violence.

We created a thing called culture and civilization, and now we're about to lose it because we're trying to destroy everything. And I kind of miss it. I miss culture and civilization.

Some people don't listen to my music because they say that I am an artist. And some don't want to go to my gallery shows, because they say I am a musician.

The thing is, even after the revolution, if people don't have any trust in themselves, they'll get new problems.

Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence.Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance.Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence.Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance.

Write down everything you fear in life.Burn it.Pour herbal oil with a sweet scent on the ashes.

Imagine the clouds drippingDig a hole in your garden to put them in

You are waterI’m waterwe’re all water in different containersthat’s why it’s so easy to meetsomeday we’ll evaporate together.

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.

I've always said that I use my voice as an instrument. It was something I created myself, and I said, 'Have voice, will travel.'

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