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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"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."

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"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."

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"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."

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

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

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"I think people place limitations on each other and on ourselves. There is a great fear of expressing ourselves, of making creativity happen."

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"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."

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"I don't work for a long time on anything. I don't have too much time in life."

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"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!"

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"I'm a politician. Politics is just a convenience for our life and we just have to create a beautiful world together that would be very convenient for us and just enjoyable."

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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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"I don't particularly consider myself just an artist. I'm a woman - I'm a human being."

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"Life keeps getting better. If anything, you start to carry a certain pride in having survived all those years."

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"You should do something that will make your heart dance once a day. If you can't do that because you're too depressed, then do something that will make somebody else's heart dance."

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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!"

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"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."

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"I am aware of the sufferings of women in India, which is also the suffering of women in many, many countries on our planet. My heart is filled with empathy and love for them."

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"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."

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"You can't always measure the effects of activist work; you just have to wish and pray that the message gets through."

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