Yoko Ono Quotes

Everyone is an artist and a genius, I think. If we don't choose to limit ourselves then we are totally accomplished.

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.

Our public officials have forgotten that they are ultimately accountable to the people who put them in office, that the information they keep in secrecy belongs to all of us. Julian Assange took a courageous step by rightfully returning what belongs to the public domain. For that reason, I believe we need to stand behind him.

I think there is a big difference between the music business and music. And my relationship is to music, not music business. I think the business will keep changing, but music won't. Music will be there.

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.

I should think that people would be more interested in politics and all that is happening, rather than two lovebirds who are looking to wed. I think it's very nice that in an age when love is so scarce that people are willing to gamble on getting married.

Every time I create something, just before that there's a kind of - you're feeling very low, you're feeling very down and insecure. Then you create and then it's fine. This is the way I observe me doing it.

At least I had that, one guy understood me.

You may think I’m small, but I have a universe inside my mind.

I respect Lady Gaga very much.

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

I think that all women are witches, in the sense that a witch is a magical being. And a wizard, which is a male version of a witch, is kind of revered, and people respect wizards. But a witch, my god, we have to burn them. It's the male chauvinistic society that we're living in for the longest time, 3,000 years or whatever. And so I just wanted to point out the fact that men and women are magical beings. We are very blessed that way, so I'm just bringing that out. Don't be scared of witches, because we are good witches, and you should appreciate our magical power.

It is sad that the air is the only thing we share. No matter how close we get to each other, there is always air between us.

Dance in your dream. Go out into the street and hug everyone you meet. Tell them how beautiful they are. Dance together.

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

You change the world by being yourself.

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

These days, DJ's are the ones who are bringing fresh sounds to the music world. In fact, they are creating a new spatial music. They are the space transformers of the universe.

If I was a Jewish girl in Hitler's day, I would become his girlfriend. After ten days in bed, he would come to my way of thinking.

Over 1,057,000 people have been killed by guns in the USA since John Lennon was shot and killed on 8 Dec 1980.

Society was built on male power, and women's power was... ignored is the best word to describe it I suppose, we have been running society on one power, half a power really. And that's so terrible. The world needs women's power too.

Imagine painting all the statues in the world in the color of the sky

Stand in the evening light until you become transparent or until you fall asleep.

Power is power. It's energy. And if you get big, big energy, you can use that in a good way.

And the more you are active about something you love, the world is going to be a better place.

There's a big difference between sending your art in a statement or something like that, and sending yourself there. When you send yourself somewhere, then you are sharing your information uncontrollably - like all yourself.

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

My husband John Lennon was a very special man. A man of humble origin, he brought light and hope to the whole world with his words and music.

Look at a star in the sky not as something unreachable but as a planet you would visit one day.

I started to notice that simpleness is divine. I think we all start trying to use very complex harmonies and rhythms and all that because of a certain kind of ambition. But I was always trying to create something simple.

Basically there are two types of people in the world: people who are confident because they know they have the ability to create, and then people who have been demoralised, who have no confidence in themselves because they have been told they have no creative ability, but must just take orders. The Establishment likes people who take no responsibility and cannot respect themselves.

Long, long time ago, I declared that all my works are a form of a prayer/a wish.

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.

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

I think something that's very important for us to communicate is usually very simple. Like breathing: Breathing is very simple. You don't do a dissonant 9th harmony or something in breathing. You just breathe, you know. I think that's how it is with very important messages.

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.

John would have been the first white rapper. And also he would have cherished the Internet.

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

Life with another person is always difficult.

Japanese are very proud and workaholics. Proud workaholics.

We need to really do something about the world. Otherwise, we're all going to blow up together.

I wonder why men can get serious at all. They have this delicate long thing hanging outside their bodies, which goes up and down by its own will. First of all, having it outside your body is terribly dangerous. If I were a man I would have a fantastic castration complex to the point that I wouldn't be able to do a thing. Second, the inconsistency of it, like carrying a chance time alarm or something. If I were a man I would always be laughing at myself.

Sometimes I am happy and sometimes not. I am, after all, a human being, you know. And I am glad that we are sometimes happy and sometimes not. You get your wisdom working by having different emotions.

Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.

It's better to dance than to march through life.

Be kind to yourself this evening. Buy something for yourself. Treat yourself to a meal. Look in the mirror and give yourself a smile

Unclog your mind. Unclog your room. Arrange your room in a way you wish your mind would be.

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