Yoko Ono Quotes

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Yoko Ono

Profession : Artist

Birth : February 18, 1933

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!

Yoko Ono

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

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One day, the dance charts will be the biggest chart in the music world. Because we all need to dance. This planet will be a fun planet when the judges in court will end the day with a dance!

Yoko Ono

Fracking kills, and it doesn't just kill us. It kills the land, nature and, eventually, the whole world.

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The thing that would most improve my life is 27 hours in a day. I could meet all my deadlines.

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Even my mother told me: 'You are a handsome woman, but you're not pretty. Pretty girls don't have those big bones.'

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Women artists are still treated differently from men.

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I don't think you should always stay calm in a tense situation, because you might not ever confront the problem. Maybe it's better to actually let yourself be tense - and find a solution.

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Japanese are very proud and workaholics. Proud workaholics.

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I was born into a very important family in Japan. My grandfather was a descendant of the Emperor, and we were very wealthy.

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To me, the concept of distance is not important. Distance doesn't exist, in fact, and neither does time. Vibrations from love or music can be felt everywhere, at all times.

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I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it.

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Great Art is Great because it inspired you greatly. If it didn't, no matter what the critics, the museums and the galleries say, it's not great art for you.

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People don't remember each tree in a park but all of us benefit from the trees. And in a way, artists are like trees in a park.

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I'm not going to doubt my life.

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

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When you're imagining peace, you can't kill anyone. That's good isn't it?

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Society tells you that when you're old you have to retire. You have to defy that.

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John wrote with a very deep love for the human race and a concern for its future.

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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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