Yoko Ono famous quotes

The human race is a very, very magical race. We have a magic power of witches and wizards. We're here on this earth to unravel the mystery of this planet. The planet is asking for it.
-- Yoko Ono

#Race #Magic #Asking

Some people say, "Sometimes I have violent thoughts, what can I do?" So I say, "Well, have them!" Cos we should not try to control ourselves. It's very bad to control ourselves in this sense. If you have any emotion at all, if its a bad emotion or good emotion, think about it, you should just understand that you have those emotions. And it's good because we are people and we have all these emotions. And the result of that is you would become more and more peaceful. If you don't let those emotions be inside of you then you become extremely violent.
-- Yoko Ono

#Thinking #People #Peaceful

You change the world by being yourself.
-- Yoko Ono

#Being Yourself #World #Changing The World

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.
-- Yoko Ono

#Inspiration #Caring #Brain

A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.
-- Yoko Ono

#Friendship #Graduation #Anniversary

Your thoughts create reality. The most pragmatic way to create world peace is to use your power of visualization. Think Peace, Act Peace, Spread Peace, Imagine Peace. Your thoughts will soon cover the planet. The most important thing is to believe in your power. It works.
-- Yoko Ono

#Believe #Reality #Thinking

Some people are old at 18 and some are young at 90. Time is a concept that humans created.
-- Yoko Ono

#Inspirational #Life #People

We don't read people's wishes. The wishes are suppose to be direct communication to the Universe. Your interception will weaken the power of the wish.
-- Yoko Ono

#Communication #People #Wish

I just want to be healthy and stay alive and keep my family going and everything and keep my friends going and try to do something so that this world will be peaceful. That is the most ambitious and the most difficult thing, but I'm there trying to do it.
-- Yoko Ono

#Healthy #Peaceful #Trying

All wishes create an upswing line when it is manifested. Therefore, together, it becomes an incredible upswing of power, whatever you wished. Of course, the more high level wishes, which covers the whole human race is stronger than wishing for getting ice cream for your dessert!
-- Yoko Ono

#Race #Ice #Together

I thought art was a verb, rather than a noun.
-- Yoko Ono

#Art #Nouns #Verbs

When I was 4 years old my mother put me into an early music education school. That's where they taught you perfect pitch and harmony and how to write music and all that. At that time, one of the homeworks was to listen to all the sounds and the noise of a day and transfer that into musical notes.
-- Yoko Ono

#Mother #Writing #School

Every drop in the ocean counts.
-- Yoko Ono

#Beach #Art #Ocean

Music is like my security blanket. The first medium that I learned was music.
-- Yoko Ono

#Firsts #Music Is #Blanket

Healing yourself is connected with healing others.
-- Yoko Ono

#Healing #Nurse #Get Over

I think that all women are witches, in the sense that a witch is a magical being. Don't be scared of witches, because we are good witches, and you should appreciate our magical power.
-- Yoko Ono

#Thinking #Appreciate #Scared

I think there is a big difference between the music business and music. And my relationship is to music, not music business. I think the business will keep changing, but music won't. Music will be there.
-- Yoko Ono

#Thinking #Differences #Bigs

Every time I create something, just before that there's a kind of - you're feeling very low, you're feeling very down and insecure. Then you create and then it's fine. This is the way I observe me doing it.
-- Yoko Ono

#Insecure #Feelings #Way

Cosmetics is a boon to every woman, but a girl's best beauty aid is still a near-sighted man.
-- Yoko Ono

#Beauty #Girl #Men

Give peace a chance and let's hope that one day we will all live in peace.
-- Yoko Ono

#Giving #One Day #Chance

Tape the sound of the moon fading at dawn. Give it to your mother to listen to when she's in sorrow.
-- Yoko Ono

#Mother #Moon #Giving

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.
-- Yoko Ono

#Simple #Thinking #Breathing

Art for me is like breathing.
-- Yoko Ono

#Art #Breathing

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

#Art #Breathing #Choke

I think that all women are witches, in the sense that a witch is a magical being. And a wizard, which is a male version of a witch, is kind of revered, and people respect wizards. But a witch, my god, we have to burn them. It’s the male chauvinistic society that we’re living in for the longest time, 3,000 years or whatever. And so I just wanted to point out the fact that men and women are magical beings. We are very blessed that way, so I’m just bringing that out. Don’t be scared of witches, because we are good witches, and you should appreciate our magical power.
-- Yoko Ono

#Blessed #Men #Thinking

Mirror becomes a razor when it's broken. A stick becomes a flute when it's loved.
-- Yoko Ono

#Mirrors #Broken #Razors

Some people get medals and awards and all that, and maybe not intentionally - maybe the world is making them do it - but they sort of just follow what they were doing. Repeat or follow what they were doing all their lives, in their style of music or whatever. In my case, I always try to start from scratch. It's very nerve-wracking actually, but it's interesting.
-- Yoko Ono

#Awards #Interesting #People

It's better to dance than to march through life.
-- Yoko Ono

#Creativity #Dancing #March

Sometimes I have compared myself with a scientist or something: when you discover something and you don't expect the whole world to understand it. I always thought I was doing that kind of activity, in art and in music too.
-- Yoko Ono

#Art #World #Kind

Losing my daughter was a very serious pain. There was always some empty space in my heart.
-- Yoko Ono

#Daughter #Pain #Heart

I really feel that artists or musicians are controversial people. Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity. If people are not doing that, they're not artists - they're artisans.
-- Yoko Ono

#Art #Creativity #People

People are still thinking of solving problems by violence and war, and that has to stop.
-- Yoko Ono

#War #Thinking #People

When you go on a stage, before you go on a stage you're really scared and you're really frightened. You don't know what to do. "Why did I say yes to this?" But once you're on the stage you think, "Okay."
-- Yoko Ono

#Thinking #Goes On #Scared

Please know that being 80 is not a scary thing. When you're 80, your life is much freer.
-- Yoko Ono

#Scary #Scary Things #Life Is

I'm into indie music. I think indie is going to bring back the spirit in music. There was a time when it was all about accommodating the music business, the music was getting tasteless, but the spirit is back.
-- Yoko Ono

#Thinking #Spirit #Music Business

Indie music is 'it' now. It's kind of a revolution to the music: 1980s, 1990s music was getting very sanitized; they were complying with the music industry. Music was getting more and more dead in a way. Now, because of the social climate that's very severe, the artists are compelled to start being real. It's really great that indie music is now.
-- Yoko Ono

#Real #Artist #Way

Nobody's life is a bed of roses. We all have crosses to bear and we all just do our best.
-- Yoko Ono

#Rose #Bears #Bed

My beauty secret is... nothing! I don't drink too much water. I don't eat very well. Sometimes I cheat and grab some chocolate. The best thing is to eat what you want, but not very much.
-- Yoko Ono

#Water #Chocolate #Secret

It's always good to do something that is not a repeat. I just don't believe in repeating.
-- Yoko Ono

#Believe

Nobody's life is a bed of roses. We all have crosses to bear, and we all just do our best. I would never claim to have the worst situation. There are many widows, and many people dying of AIDS, many people killed in Lebanon, people starving all over the planet. So we have to count our lucky stars.
-- Yoko Ono

#Stars #Rose #People

Love is an incredibly strong thing, it goes everywhere, it's like water, you can't stop it. Love, once you have it, once you create a kind of pathway for it to come out, it just keeps on coming out.
-- Yoko Ono

#Strong #Love Is #Water

People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication.
-- Yoko Ono

#Communication #Artist #People

I have the outsider's vision, which is creating wisdom I can share with the world. The fact that I am misunderstood has always given me an added impetus to work on communication to bridge the gap.
-- Yoko Ono

#Communication #Bridges #Creating

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

#Artist #Broken #Band

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.
-- Yoko Ono

#Passion #Thinking #Effort

I never thought I would go into the dance charts.
-- Yoko Ono

It's difficult to explain love. You want to explain water? You need a book for it. There are many different ways to explain what water is. Love is big, it's very big. I know that I have tons of it. But maybe we don't want to open up so much, and we think, maybe we don't have so much, but yes, you know that you have tons of love. We all do. Through that love we can connect, we can heal each other, we can make people, all of us, happy, joyful, and make a better world.
-- Yoko Ono

#Book #Love You #Love Is

Artists are going to be the metronome of this society.
-- Yoko Ono

#Art #Artist #Metronomes

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.
-- Yoko Ono

#Feminist #Natural

Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.
-- Yoko Ono

#Art #Creativity #Controversy

IMAGINE PEACE: Think PEACE, Act PEACE, Spread #‎ PEACE .
-- Yoko Ono

#Thinking #Imagine #Spread

Society was built on male power, and women's power was... ignored is the best word to describe it I suppose, we have been running society on one power, half a power really. And that's so terrible. The world needs women's power too.
-- Yoko Ono

#Running #Half #World

Distance doesn't exist, in fact, and neither does time. Vibrations from love or music can be felt everywhere, at all times.
-- Yoko Ono

#Distance #Vibrations #Facts

I'm just trying to do my best every day, hoping that I have done my best every day, and its very easy in a way, but also it's not that easy. Every day counts.
-- Yoko Ono

#Trying #Way #Done

We get shy about saying things like I love you. Life is so short. It's crazy, that we hesitate to express our true thoughts to each other.
-- Yoko Ono

#Crazy #Love You #Shy

Some people are saying there's going to be a third World War. I hope not. I really think this is a time that people can start to mend things by negotiations, dealings. We know about dealings, don't we? We have brilliant lawyers. Why don't we have brilliant lawyers standing up and working for peace?
-- Yoko Ono

#War #Thinking #People

Loneliness is equal to the radius of one's awareness.
-- Yoko Ono

#Loneliness #Awareness #Equal

I'm not the kind of woman who would love to make soup or knit sweaters. I never cherished that so much.
-- Yoko Ono

#Sweaters #Soup #Kind

Imagine the clouds dripping Dig a hole in your garden to put them in
-- Yoko Ono

#Garden #Clouds #Imagine

We need to really do something about the world. Otherwise, we're all going to blow up together.
-- Yoko Ono

#Blow #Together #World

The cynicism that you have is not your real soul.
-- Yoko Ono

#Real #Artist #Soul

I wonder why men get serious at all. They have this delicate, long thing hanging outside their bodies which goes up and down by its own will. If I were a man I would always be laughing at myself.
-- Yoko Ono

#Men #Laughing #Long

When you are suffering, you become more understanding about yourself, but also about other people's sufferings too. That's the first step to understand somebody is to understand their sufferings. So then love follows.
-- Yoko Ono

#People #Understanding #Suffering

People think that their world will get smaller as they get older. My experience is just the opposite. Your senses become more acute. You start to blossom.
-- Yoko Ono

#Thinking #Opposites #People

Smile to the future and it will smile back to you
-- Yoko Ono

People don't remember each tree in a park but all of us benefit from the trees. And in a way, artists are like trees in a park.
-- Yoko Ono

#Artist #People #Tree

Over 1,057,000 people have been killed by guns in the USA since John Lennon was shot and killed on 8 Dec 1980,
-- Yoko Ono

#Gun #Usa #People

All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!
-- Yoko Ono

#Music #Artist #People

Music is like my security blanket.
-- Yoko Ono

#Music Is #Blanket #Security

It's a waste of time to think that if you colored a painting red what might have happened if you painted it black.
-- Yoko Ono

#Thinking #Black #Might

I am extremely rebellious. I have this strong, defiant spirit.
-- Yoko Ono

#Strong #Spirit #Rebellious

Each time we don't say what we wanna say, we're dying.
-- Yoko Ono

#Honesty #Dying

Use your blood to paint. Keep painting until you faint. Keep painting until you die.
-- Yoko Ono

#Blood #Use #Painting

There's a long life ahead of you and it's going to be beautiful, as long as you keep loving and hugging each other.
-- Yoko Ono

#Beautiful #Kissing #Long

But only art and music have the power to bring peace.
-- Yoko Ono

#Art #Art And Music

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

#Pain #Sadness #Creativity

Be silent in a group of people See what they reveal to you.
-- Yoko Ono

#People #Groups #Silent

If someone is unpleasant to you, draw a halo around his or her head in your mind. He/she is an angel who came to teach you something.
-- Yoko Ono

#Angel #Mind #Halos

Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence. Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance.
-- Yoko Ono

#Summer #Perseverance #Gratitude

See what you can do. See what you want to do. See what you will do about it. Find your way out.
-- Yoko Ono

#Way #Want #What You Want

Sometimes I am happy and sometimes not. I am, after all, a human being, you know. And I am glad that we are sometimes happy and sometimes not. You get your wisdom working by having different emotions.
-- Yoko Ono

#Different #Emotion #Sometimes

Try to say nothing negative about anybody for three days, for forty-five days, for three months. See what happens to your life.
-- Yoko Ono

#Trying #Three #Months

If everybody thinks of something, then it will happen. Your mind is part of the universe. It is connected, you can use its energy.
-- Yoko Ono

#Thinking #Mind #Use

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.
-- Yoko Ono

#Anger #Thinking #Body

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

#Good Morning #Smile #Differences

If your life changes, we can change the world, too.
-- Yoko Ono

#Life Changing #Artist #World

Remember, each one of us has the power to change the world. Just start thinking peace, and the message will spread quicker than you think.
-- Yoko Ono

#Thinking #Messages #World

We are all dreamers creating the next world, the next beautiful world for ourselves and for our children.
-- Yoko Ono

#Beautiful #Art #Children

At least I had that, one guy understood me.
-- Yoko Ono

#Artist #Aquarius #Guy

When people ask me what the most important thing is in life, I answer: 'Just breathe.'
-- Yoko Ono

#People #Important #Answers

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

When Orientals are attacked, they don't hit back.
-- Yoko Ono

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.
-- Yoko Ono

#Mother #School #Years

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

#Thinking #Artist #World

We know that our cells are speaking to each other.
-- Yoko Ono

#Cells

We don't live by just sleeping and eating. We need pride and dignity in our lives. Work gives you that.
-- Yoko Ono

#Sleep #Pride #Giving

We artists have the dignity to tell the truth to the people, unlike politicians.
-- Yoko Ono

#Artist #People #Dignity

To have a relationship that is pure and passionate and beautiful - I think people are scared of having that now. Especially guys.
-- Yoko Ono

#Beautiful #Thinking #People

Artists and musicians of the Sixties were definitely into clothes.
-- Yoko Ono

#Artist #Clothes #Musician

Unclog your mind. Unclog your room. Arrange your room in a way you wish your mind would be.
-- Yoko Ono

#Mind #Wish #Way