Yoko Ono Quotes - Page 10

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

I never want projects to be finished; I have always believed in unfinished work. I got that from Schubert, you know, the 'Unfinished Symphony.'

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

When I turned 60, it didn't bother me at all.

Think of the Earth as a turning point in eternity. Think of the Earth as a meeting point in infinity.

Many incredible artists die before they were famous.

To have world peace, we all have to have a healthy understanding of what is necessary to bring World Peace. It's not something that will be dropped on our laps. We have to work for it. Until we get World Peace, I think my strongest passion stays in the effort to get it.

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.

If you're criticized then you can use it as an experience. Compliments, you can't use.

The amazing thing is that we could live in the world together peacefully, feed the world, shelter the world. We have that capability both spiritually and technologically.

If I hear dance music, my body starts to move. Whatever the dance music is, I can't help it. With all that, I still felt, well, rock is a little higher art, but it wasn't. Right now, because I have so much experience with dance charts, I started to realize that it's incredible art. This is going to be known one day as high art.

I never wanted to be a professional artist; I think that's limiting.

All women are feminists. Being a feminist is allowing woman to be natural, for what she is, whatever it is. All of us can be natural and we're all feminists in that sense.

I'm not the kind of woman who would love to make soup or knit sweaters. I never cherished that so much.

I think if you give in and accept society's stereotypes, then you start thinking, 'I cannot dance till late at night because I'm 70.'

The people have got to trust in themselves.

When I was 4 years old my mother put me into an early music education school. That's where they taught you perfect pitch and harmony and how to write music and all that. At that time, one of the homeworks was to listen to all the sounds and the noise of a day and transfer that into musical notes.

If you have a slave around the house how can you expect to make a revolution outside it? The problem for women is that if we try to be free, then we naturally become lonely, because so many women are willing to become slaves, and men usually prefer that.

In a way the new music showed things could be transformed by new channels of communication.

I often wish my mother had died so that at least I could get some people's sympathy. But there she was, a perfectly beautiful mother.

There's a long life ahead of you and it's going to be beautiful, as long as you keep loving and hugging each other.

I see so many activists... who are artists because they feel that they have the power of communication.

Hide until everybody goes home. Hide until everybody forgets about you. Hide until everybody dies.

Love is what I give to the one I love.

Art for me is like breathing.