Yoko Ono Quotes - Page 13

Give death announcements each time you move instead of giving announcements of the change of address. Send the same when you die.

What a beautiful future it will be! Don't worry about life being boring. It will never be.

I did not break up the Beatles. You can't have it both ways. If you're going to blame me for breaking the Beatles up, you should be thankful that I made them into myth rather than a crumbling group.

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.

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

Countries have lost their culture because what they wanted was money. Money became the running theme in every country and culture was sacrificed.

After my husband John Lennon passed away, I tried to smile for my health.

When I got pregnant, I had to concentrate on being pregnant for a whole nine months, even though I knew it was ruining my career at the time.

Walking on thin ice, I'm paying the price. I'm throwing the dice in the air. Why must we learn it the hard way And play the game of life with your heart?

Women are very intelligent and not appreciated. We try to pretend that we are not clever, and it's such a pity that we can't show how clever we are.

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.

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

I realized that an artist seeking to tell the truth in her art takes great courage. I recognize the courage required to bring children together from Israeli and Palestinian communities to find commonality in music as a very powerful and effective beginning towards Peace.

Someday I'll be remembered for The phone calls I never made Letters I never mailed And the stories I never finished telling anyone.

The boats outside the window were always still I wondered if one of them would take me to the ocean.

There is an incredible love in creating art unless somebody is saying, 'Hey, let's just make money,' because it doesn't work when you do it that way. If you are aiming for that, forget it.

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

I'm not interested so much in collaboration. You see that from the history of my albums.

The process is always the same. I get an inspiration for a new song, I put it down on paper immediately so I won't lose it. When I am ready to go to the studio with it, I play it a few times on the piano and edit, add, and type the lyrics and take it to the studio. Sometimes I don't have anything on paper.

Bad stories are written about me because the press knows they can make me into a weeping dog and few people will object.

I want to incite people to loosen their oppression by giving them something to work with, to build on. They shouldn't be frightened of creating themselves - that's why I make things very open, with things for people to do.

I trust in my inspiration, really, and that's difficult because sometimes you would rather be technical. And once you empty your mind, empty your brain, it's really incredible. I'm very caring about things that dash into my brain, and I make sure I don't just clog it.

Dance music makes us dance. Let us get off our couch and spin around!

You're filled with so much life. Is there any reason why all of us are not full of life?

Perhaps one feels more pain when parents are there. It's like when you're hungry, you know, it's worse to get a symbol of a cheeseburger than no cheeseburger at all. It doesn't do you any good, you know.