Quotes By Yoko Ono

Events are the best teacher for us. You try to learn from people, there is always some bend to it.

The nice thing about the gallery shows is that without having to pay any money you can just go and see it.

The cynicism that you have is not your real soul.

Life with another person is always difficult.

Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity.

You know, something happened to me when I became 70. I started to feel a tremendous love for the human race, and life and this planet, the universe, the whole shebang.

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

Music is like my security blanket.

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

A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.

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

I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it.

Art is my life and my life is art.

War is over if you want it.

Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.

Most of the fans of John Lennon and maybe John and Yoko are younger than me.

Being alone is very difficult.

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

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.

Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you'll start to see a big difference in your life.

Japanese are very proud and workaholics. Proud workaholics.

I realized that if my thoughts immediately affect my body, I should be careful about what I think. Now if I get angry, I ask myself why I feel that way. If I can find the source of my anger, I can turn that negative energy into something positive.

Why do they cover Paul's songs but never mine?

Artists are going to be the metronome of this society.

I just go with the flow, so any style can be in my music - that makes it exciting.

At least I had that, one guy understood me.

What we do really affects the world. Most of us think we can't do anything, but it really isn't true.

Marriage is a gamble, let's be honest.

When I turned 60, it didn't bother me at all.

No one person could have broken up a band, especially one the size of the Beatles.