Yoko Ono Quotes

In your head, a sunset can go on for days

The people have got to trust in themselves.

I thought art was a verb, rather than a noun.

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

Touch, touch, touch, touch me love, I'm shaking inside.

Some people say, "Sometimes I have violent thoughts, what can I do?" So I say, "Well, have them!" Cos we should not try to control ourselves. It's very bad to control ourselves in this sense. If you have any emotion at all, if its a bad emotion or good emotion, think about it, you should just understand that you have those emotions. And it's good because we are people and we have all these emotions. And the result of that is you would become more and more peaceful. If you don't let those emotions be inside of you then you become extremely violent.

When you are feeling bad, do one thing a day to make your heart dance. It could be a simple thing like looking up at the sky.

The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves.

Real success is doing things right every day by not forgetting to express love to your friends.

The cynicism that you have is not your real soul.

In the '60s we fought for peace, when the Vietnam war was on. We were against the cops and against the politicians, and there was a lot of waving banners and all that. And I think in a way, just as they were enjoying that machoism of war, we were enjoying the machismo of being anti-war, you know?

Artists are going to be the metronome of this society.

You are beautiful. Don't ever think you are not. It may be such a compliment that does not come from a man too often. They are shy, proud, and rude. Give yourself some love. And walk as what you are - a beautiful woman. All your life.

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.

Distance doesn't exist, in fact, and neither does time. Vibrations from love or music can be felt everywhere, at all times.

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

It's difficult to explain love. You want to explain water? You need a book for it. There are many different ways to explain what water is. Love is big, it's very big. I know that I have tons of it. But maybe we don't want to open up so much, and we think, maybe we don't have so much, but yes, you know that you have tons of love. We all do. Through that love we can connect, we can heal each other, we can make people, all of us, happy, joyful, and make a better world.

I never thought I would go into the dance charts.

In the '60s, people were still very protective of each field that they belonged to. Avant-garde artists didn't know about rock or pop or jazz. And the jazz people of course didn't want to know about any other music. They were all just kind of protecting their territory.

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.

You can't always be in awe of someone's talent, living with them.

you don't need talent to be an artist. 'Artist' is just a frame of mind. Anybody can be an artist, anybody can communicate if they are desperate enough.

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

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

Bless you for your jealousy; it is a sign of empathy.

It's a waste of time to think that if you colored a painting red what might have happened if you painted it black.

Love is an incredibly strong thing, it goes everywhere, it's like water, you can't stop it. Love, once you have it, once you create a kind of pathway for it to come out, it just keeps on coming out.

Anger is an emotion that is very energetic. It is an ideal emotion to turn it around to make it work as a positive force.

Give death announcements each time you move instead of giving announcements of the change of address. Send the same when you die.

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.

I just want to be healthy and stay alive and keep my family going and everything and keep my friends going and try to do something so that this world will be peaceful. That is the most ambitious and the most difficult thing, but I'm there trying to do it.

I think of John every day. I do try to block it, but December 8th is not the only day I think of him.

See what you can do. See what you want to do. See what you will do about it. Find your way out.

Be kind once a day - even if it's just in your mind.

I travel a lot, so when I arrive in a city, I like to go to good local bookshops and make a selection based on how I'm feeling and what I'm thinking. The book I pick usually seems to have a definite karmic connection!

Art is my life and my life is art.

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

I realized that if my thoughts immediately affect my body, I should be careful about what I think. Now if I get angry, I ask myself why I feel that way. If I can find the source of my anger, I can turn that negative energy into something positive.

When people ask me what the most important thing is in life, I answer: 'Just breathe.'

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.

I think I'm an observer in a way. And my life was not so - well, my life was bad too - but it's just that I had the sense to cope with it. But it's probably not that easy to cope if you're in a society where you get killed when your husband dies.

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

What all of us artists are doing is using our pain as material to create our work.

Is truth always positive? Of course. Once the truth comes out, you know, it's all right. We're scared that if the truth comes out that it's not all right. It's the other way around.

Hide until everybody goes home. Hide until everybody forgets about you. Hide until everybody dies.

Peace is here now. It's just that we don't recognize it. Let's say that 98 percent of people in the world are wanting peace. Now people say, even people from Siberia? Yes. We want world peace. The two percent is really tying to mess it up. It's so sad in a way, because by messing it up what are they going to get? Their children are going to suffer, their grandchildren are going to suffer, and they might even die before something gets good.

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.

What is beauty? It's what you love.