Yoko Ono Quotes

• 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.

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

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• Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity.

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

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• When I was four years old, my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and composition.

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• 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.

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• Women artists are still treated differently from men.

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

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

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• Why do they cover Paul’s songs but never mine?

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• When you go to war, both sides lose totally.

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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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• What the Beatles did was something incredible, it was more than what a band could do. We have to give them respect.

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• We are all dreamers creating the next world, the next beautiful world for ourselves and for our children.

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• War is over if you want it.

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• True artists are prophets. I don’t want to be that prophetic in that sense because it’s so lonely.

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• The nice thing about the gallery shows is that without having to pay any money you can just go and see it.

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• The cynicism that you have is not your real soul.

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

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Yoko Ono (62)

Birth:	18th February, 1933
Nationality:	Japanese
Profession:	Activist, Artist, Author

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Yoko Ono is a Japanese artist, author, and peace activist, known for her marriage to John Lennon and her work in avant-garde art, music and filmmaking. Ono brought feminism to the forefront in her music and is also known for her philanthropic contributions to arts, peace and AIDS outreach programs.

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