"I'm not interested so much in collaboration. You see that from the history of my albums."
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Yoko Ono quotes (page 17 of 18)
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"The only instrument I can play is piano. Whenever I make songs at home, I play the piano and make them on the piano."
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"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."
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"I'm free from holding personal anger because I can express what I want through my music."
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"After my husband John Lennon passed away, I tried to smile for my health."
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"What the Beatles did was something incredible, it was more than what a band could do. We have to give them respect."
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"We created a thing called culture and civilization, and now we're about to lose it because we're trying to destroy everything. And I kind of miss it. I miss culture and civilization."
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"I am the type of person who would do something thoroughly if someone said, "I don't think you can do it." I am extremely rebellious. I have this strong, defiant spirit."
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"I started to notice that simpleness is divine. I think we all start trying to use very complex harmonies and rhythms and all that because of a certain kind of ambition. But I was always trying to create something simple."
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"You can't love someone unless you are in an equal position with them. A lot of women have to cling to men out of fear or insecurity, and that's not love - basically that's why women hate men."
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"In the present age when communication is so rapid, we should create a different tradition, traditions are created everyday. Five years now is like 100 years before. We are living in a society that has no history. There’s no precedent for this kind of society so we can break the old patterns."
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"Getting into creating in a new genre is like arriving to a new country."
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"Our thoughts determine our age."
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"We are very lucky really, because we can create our own reality, John [Lennon] and me, but we know the important thing is to communicate with other people."
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"All I’m saying is that perhaps we can make a revolution without violence."
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"My work was not embraced for many decades. I would have killed myself if getting embraced affected me so much."
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"Music is like my security blanket. The first medium that I learned was music."
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"Creativity is innate and it manifests itself in so many forms. It needs to come out somehow or it destroys you in some way."
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"I never went to art school and I never thought of going to an art school. It was just a way of manifesting these ideas I had. Ideas came to me that I needed to express."
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"I don't really believe in going with somebody to have tea and chat. I don't do that. It's just a waste of time."
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