Yoko Ono

Artist, Musician, Activist

Yoko Ono is a Japanese multimedia artist and peace activist known for her avant-garde art and influential role in the anti-war movement.

Born
February 18, 1933
Quotes
356
Rank
#577

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"Music is something that even when you close your eyes it gets into your body."

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"Women are put in a position of feeling embarrassed about their bodies. It's so ridiculous, but also astounding - we have to always be apologetic about having created the human race."

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"When I hear music, my body just starts to move. It has nothing to do with training or anything. That's just me. That's just my body. And I was like that as a child, too."

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

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"People just love to be entertained, and in order to entertain them, you have to do things in a way that they understand."

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"Power is power. It's energy. And if you get big, big energy, you can use that in a good way."

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"I relate to happiness as an ecstatic moment - something you don't create, you encounter."

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"When I'm putting some communication out on Twitter or Facebook or Instagram, I think that it's helping me, my brain, you know, because it's always somehow stimulated by people who are sending things to me. And it works both ways. It's great. My brain is very happy about it."

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"The art world was not initially really accepting my kind of work. I was ahead of my time."

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"The Beatles were a group made up of four very complex men, and my small hand could not have broken these men up."

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"It is sad that the air is the only thing we share. No matter how close we get to each other, there is always air between us."

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"I'm a very obsessive type. If I do get into it, I'll soon be there 12 hours a day. I just don't want to do that."

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"I should think that people would be more interested in politics and all that is happening, rather than two lovebirds who are looking to wed. I think it's very nice that in an age when love is so scarce that people are willing to gamble on getting married."

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"You can't dance if you got too much muck in your head."

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"People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?"

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"DJs are in incredible competition, musically. And they are the most musically creative and sensitive people in all the music charts. I am amazed how they are."

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"Listen to the sound of the earth turning."

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"You know harmony only exists in music-isn't that amazing? I think that if you see earth from very far away, the color is blue. That is very interesting because blue is the color of communication."

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