Yoko Ono Quotes

My life has always been unplanned. So when something comes along, I feel like, Why not give it a try? It's fun to experiment like that.

I just go with the flow, so any style can be in my music - that makes it exciting.

There's a long life ahead of you and it's going to be beautiful, as long as you keep loving and hugging each other.

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.'

Fracking is an incredible risk to the human race, I don't know why they even thought of doing it.

Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.

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.

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

Remember, each one of us has the power to change the world. Just start thinking peace, and the message will spread quicker than you think.

My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.

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

We get shy about saying things like I love you. Life is so short. It's crazy, that we hesitate to express our true thoughts to each other.

People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication.

My beauty secret is... nothing! I don't drink too much water. I don't eat very well. Sometimes I cheat and grab some chocolate. The best thing is to eat what you want, but not very much.

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

When I'm putting some communication out on Twitter or Facebook or Instagram, I think that it's helping me, my brain, you know, because it's always somehow stimulated by people who are sending things to me. And it works both ways. It's great. My brain is very happy about it.

Use your blood to paint. Keep painting until you faint. Keep painting until you die.

Most of the fans of John Lennon and maybe John and Yoko are younger than me.

I always believed that my work should be unfinished in the sense that I encourage people to add their creativity to it, either conceptually or physically. Back in the 1960s, I was calling for 'Unfinished Music,' number one, and number two, with my artwork - I was taking unfinished work into the gallery. And that's how I was looking at it.

Music is something that even when you close your eyes it gets into your body.

If people want to make war they should make a color war, and paint each others’ cities up in the night in pinks and greens.

Imagine a dolphin dancing in the sky. Let it dance with joy. Think of yourself at the bottom of the ocean watching.

Some people are old at 18 and some are young at 90. Time is a concept that humans created.

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.

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

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

We don't have a particular organization, but we all want to make a world in which justice is given to each one of us.

There are things you can never take, no matter how strong you are.

When I hear music, my body just starts to move. It has nothing to do with training or anything. That's just me. That's just my body. And I was like that as a child, too.

If you have too many quotes from other people in your head, you can't create. You have to keep your head empty. That's why I am constantly enjoying the sky, the park, the walk.

Every drop in the ocean counts.

Some people are saying there's going to be a third World War. I hope not. I really think this is a time that people can start to mend things by negotiations, dealings. We know about dealings, don't we? We have brilliant lawyers. Why don't we have brilliant lawyers standing up and working for peace?

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.

People think that their world will get smaller as they get older. My experience is just the opposite. Your senses become more acute. You start to blossom.

I don't think you should always stay calm in a tense situation, because you might not ever confront the problem. Maybe it's better to actually let yourself be tense - and find a solution.

I trust in my inspiration, really, and that's difficult because sometimes you would rather be technical. And once you empty your mind, empty your brain, it's really incredible. I'm very caring about things that dash into my brain, and I make sure I don't just clog it.

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

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

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

Tape the sound of friends laughing together. Save it for a rainy day.

I really feel that artists or musicians are controversial people. Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity. If people are not doing that, they're not artists - they're artisans.

The Establishment likes people who take no responsibility and cannot respect themselves.

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

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

When you are suffering, you become more understanding about yourself, but also about other people's sufferings too. That's the first step to understand somebody is to understand their sufferings. So then love follows.

I'm very thankful that I can make people happy just by signing my name.

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

Artists are magicians and I definitely think John Lennon was a Wizard.