Yoko Ono Quotes - Page 12

I'm not giving any guidance, OK. I mean, you know, mothers are not supposed to give guidance, right? Anyway, so he's [Sean] doing his own thing.

The whole world is starting to realize that it was the most unwise thing for our society to have ignored women power, to run the society with male priorities.

There's many women now who think, 'Surely we don't need feminism anymore, we're all liberated and society's accepting us as we are'. Which is just hogwash. It's not true at all.

Tell the Earth how much you care, how beautiful she is, and how much you love her. Ask for her forgiveness for having been so careless.

When Orientals are attacked, they don't hit back.

We're all water from different rivers, That's why it's so easy to meet, We're all water in this vast, vast ocean, Someday we'll evaporate together.

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.

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!

The odds of not meeting in this life are so great that every meeting is like a miracle. It's a wonder that we don't make love to every single person we meet.

All I can say is, it's not very easy for a woman to be associated with The Beatles.

I'm free from holding personal anger because I can express what I want through my music.

Everything has complexity. Everything has simplicity. You just grab it.

Performance art is going to be the future. Plays on Broadway are so restricted. But performance art is like haikus, just one line thing. And it's more casual but more interesting.

Some people think that movements, such as the movements in ballet, are a higher cultural expression, whereas some are just dirt. I think it is elitist to think that a trained movement is more acceptable than untrained and possibly unrehearsed movements.

I think of John every day. I do try to block it, but December 8th is not the only day I think of him.

I think energy is the most important thing that we can give to people as performers. Anything else is a little bit pretentious. But energy is not.

I have been known as the minimal and conceptual artist for over five decades. I think I haven't changed much.

I get very nervous before I get on the stage, but once I'm on the stage, I'm just, you know, me. Nothing hurts me.

I always thought that I was an important musician. If you don't have that confidence, why would you go on and do it?

The only way you can better John is by copying him exactly.

Watch the sun until it comes into your body and stays as a tiny sun. It will keep your face shining even in the coldest of winter.

Sometimes the father feels pushed out because of the connection between the mother and the child.

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

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

Women artists are still treated differently from men.