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Art is like breathing for me. If I don't do it, I start to choke.


Yoko Ono

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LIKE I You're either ready and prepared to take on the task, or you're not,'' he said.
LIKE I I did not have one butterfly out there today,'' he said.
LIKE I Married to the Mob.
LIKE I Hello you're with Drudge.
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YOKO ONO When you go through a negative situation, don't think about it. Make it positive.
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YOKO ONO A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.
YOKO ONO Being alone is very difficult.
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YOKO ONO You change the world by being yourself.
YOKO ONO Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you'll start to see a big difference in your life...
YOKO ONO When I speak out against the guns or against the big corporations, some of my friends say, 'Oh Y...
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YOKO ONO Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence.
Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberan...
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YOKO ONO I'm kind of honored to be a dragon lady. The dragon is a very powerful, mythical animal.
YOKO ONO We are all dreamers creating the next world, the next beautiful world for ourselves and for our chil...
YOKO ONO I was born into a very important family in Japan. My grandfather was a descendant of the Emperor, an...
YOKO ONO Some people think that movements, such as the movements in ballet, are a higher cultural expression,...
YOKO ONO I never want projects to be finished; I have always believed in unfinished work. I got that from Sch...
YOKO ONO Marriage is a gamble, let's be honest.
YOKO ONO I always believed that my work should be unfinished in the sense that I encourage people to add thei...
YOKO ONO The nice thing about the gallery shows is that without having to pay any money you can just go and s...
YOKO ONO Great Art is Great because it inspired you greatly. If it didn't, no matter what the critics, th...
YOKO ONO Please know that being 80 is not a scary thing. When you're 80, your life is much freer.
YOKO ONO The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves.
YOKO ONO How could he be a friend when he was indicted for grand larceny and took so many things from us?
YOKO ONO Losing my daughter was a very serious pain. There was always some empty space in my heart.
YOKO ONO When people get cynical about love, they should look at us [Yoko and John Lennon] and see it is poss...
YOKO ONO Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
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YOKO ONO I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.
YOKO ONO I travel a lot, so when I arrive in a city, I like to go to good local bookshops and make a selectio...
YOKO ONO Nothing is written in stone. So don't prepare yourself for a long and lucrative career. You migh...
YOKO ONO My husband John Lennon was a very special man. A man of humble origin, he brought light and hope to ...
YOKO ONO Spread the word. Spread the peace.
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YOKO ONO Why do they cover Paul's songs but never mine?
YOKO ONO If we had a big Apple Records lawyers meeting or something, and we were sitting there and John was b...
YOKO ONO Then he started to do it, and I'm very glad I said that.
YOKO ONO If he's observing me from up there, I'm sure he's proud of me. It's going to go on and on. This is w...
YOKO ONO You're out of the shot, ... Do you mind playing a little nearer to the camera?
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YOKO ONO People always portrayed us as enemies, like two boxers on opposite sides of the ring, but of course ...
YOKO ONO War is over if you want it.
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YOKO ONO I will consider the possibility, that is, when I get the call.
YOKO ONO It's not as though you're an old school friend of mine, Cynthia.
YOKO ONO New technology is something he always embraced, and this is something he would have loved.
YOKO ONO No Rodgers and Hammerstein on Broadway now. Only Juke Box.
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YOKO ONO Reality can be elastic, and I want to see how elastic it can be, you know?
YOKO ONO Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
YOKO ONO (When) I read about the battle of the widows, I thought 'I'm not John's widow, Yoko is John's widow,
YOKO ONO I wonder why men get serious at all. They have this delicate, long thing hanging outside their bodie...
YOKO ONO He was very generous about it. I just wonder where those drawings went.
YOKO ONO [Confronted for the first time by the sight of her husband and his lover,] rooted to the spot in sho...
YOKO ONO This shows the timelessness of John's prophetic, visionary songwriting.
YOKO ONO People say that this new generation is so used to the Internet that their heads are already differen...
YOKO ONO I said, 'You're a good songwriter, it's not June with Spoon that you write.
YOKO ONO You may think I’m small, but I have a universe inside my mind.
YOKO ONO Hide until everybody goes home. Hide until everybody forgets about you. Hide until everybody dies.
YOKO ONO I said, 'You're a good songwriter. It's not June with Spoon that you write. You're a good singer, an...
YOKO ONO I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you...
YOKO ONO I believe in people so much that if the whole of civilization is burned so we don't have any memory ...
YOKO ONO Even my mother told me: 'You are a handsome woman, but you're not pretty. Pretty girls don&#...
YOKO ONO True artists are prophets. I don't want to be that prophetic in that sense because it's so l...
YOKO ONO At this time I think it's important that we remember John for what he contributed to the world. For ...
YOKO ONO I think that all women are witches, in the sense that a witch is a magical being. And a wizard, whic...
YOKO ONO Our public officials have forgotten that they are ultimately accountable to the people who put them ...
YOKO ONO I think energy is the most important thing that we can give to people as performers. Anything else i...
YOKO ONO I think that there is a sort of spiritual power that is translating into our bodies as we perform. P...
YOKO ONO Each time we don't say what we wanna say, we're dying.
YOKO ONO I thought art was a verb, rather than a noun.
YOKO ONO I think that there is incredible prejudice about witches while there is no prejudice about wizards. ...
YOKO ONO The human race is a very, very magical race. We have a magic power of witches and wizards. We're...
YOKO ONO I like artists who have something to say, not wallpaper.
YOKO ONO Distance doesn't exist, in fact, and neither does time. Vibrations from love or music can be fel...
YOKO ONO To me, the concept of distance is not important. Distance doesn't exist, in fact, and neither do...
YOKO ONO Tape the sound of the moon fading at dawn. Give it to your mother to listen to when she's in sorrow.
YOKO ONO Write down everything you fear in life.
Burn it.
Pour herbal oil with a sweet scent on the...
YOKO ONO I am extremely rebellious. I have this strong, defiant spirit.
YOKO ONO Artists and musicians of the Sixties were definitely into clothes.
YOKO ONO I think if you give in and accept society's stereotypes, then you start thinking, 'I cannot ...
YOKO ONO I don't think you should always stay calm in a tense situation, because you might not ever confr...
YOKO ONO You can be very wild and still be very wise.
YOKO ONO Imagine the clouds dripping
Dig a hole in your garden to
put them in
YOKO ONO I feel sad that he’s just a voice now.
YOKO ONO Some people are old at 18 and some are young at 90. Time is a concept that humans created.
YOKO ONO This is the beginning of a significant era for the military transformation of the Japan-US alliance....
YOSHINORI ONO Now she realized that she was not peering at a so-dark-blue-it-looked-black ocean, but rather she wa...
FUYUMI ONO Our refueling efforts have been highly evaluated by the foreign countries, but there has also been c...
YOSHINORI ONO