Yoko Ono Quotes (197 quotes)

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„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.“
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„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.“
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„The war industry people are very together; they know exactly what they want; they don't even have to talk to each other. The peace industry people are just intellectuals who are very critical of each other... Unless the peace industry is powerful, we're always going to have war. It is as simple as that.“
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„I think it's nice to let people know that there is an invisible part of the world. I think there are many people now who are interested in the invisible world.“
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„I feel that my work is not in vain, that it does have a place in society, even though it may not be considered that it has a place in society - it doesn't matter.“
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„I don't think about the future. I don't think about the past. I just think of what comes into my head at the time. So that might be about the past, that might be about the future. Or, the present.“
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„After I was 70, I realized that, 'Okay, I would like to have another 50 years, and I probably could.' But part of me is saying, 'Maybe I'm not going to have that much time.'“
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„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.“
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„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.“
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„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.“
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„Women artists are still treated differently from men.“
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„Why do they cover Paul's songs but never mine?“
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„When you're imagining peace, you can't kill anyone. That's good isn't it?“
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„When Orientals are attacked, they don't hit back.“
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„What we do really affects the world. Most of us think we can't do anything, but it really isn't true.“
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„We live too long for one marriage.“
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„The art world was not initially really accepting my kind of work. I was ahead of my time.“
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„Power is power. It's energy. And if you get big, big energy, you can use that in a good way.“
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„Most people like to hear sounds they are used to.“
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„Many people do remember their births, but they deny it.“
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Yoko Ono
Author born: February 18, 1933
Nationality: American
Author Profession: Artist

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