Yoko Ono Quotes

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

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Kill all the men you have slept with. Put the bones in a box and send it into the sea with flowers.

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In classical music, people were doing very complex things, for the sake of being complex. I learned that rock, with two simple chords, can bring an incredible communication of the spirit.

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The most frequent one that I get is, Can we change the lyrics to "Imagine" — "No religion, too"? The religious people want it.

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I thank Pussy Riot for standing firmly in their belief for Freedom of Expression, and making all women of the world proud to be women.

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Back then, we didn't know anything, really. I look at videos and everyone is smoking. It's sort of annoying now.

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Hide until everybody goes home. Hide until everybody forgets about you. Hide until everybody dies.

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Don't ever give up on life. Life can be so beautiful, especially after you've spent a lot of time with it.

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You don't need talent to be an artist. 'Artist' is just a frame of mind. Anybody can be an artist, anybody can communicate if they are desperate enough.

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I just think it's wrong not to pursue the possibility of anything.

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

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Transform jealousy to admiration, and what you admire will become part of your life.

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If all of us just loved and cared for one person each. That is all it takes. Love breeds love. Maybe then we will be able to prevent each other from going insane.

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Imagine a dolphin dancing in the sky. Let it dance with joy. Think of yourself at the bottom of the ocean watching.

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Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited. I believe in people so much that if the whole of civilization is burned so we don't have any memory of it, even then people will start to build their own art. It is a necessity – a function. We don't need history.

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All my concerts had no sounds in them: they were completely silent…People had to make their own music in their minds.

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I have a big job in addition to music: to keep his voice going.

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Never say goodbye,
You say tomorrow's another day,
All I know is we're here today. I've got nightmares I could never share with you,
The kind that keeps me up all night.
So hold me tight till the room is light
And tell me that it's all right.

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

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I usually stay away from being carried away,
But one day I saw a silver horse.
I thought he might take me to that somewhere high,
I thought he might take me to that deep blue sky. I came to realize that the horse had no wings.
No wings, well, it wasn't so bad, you know. I learnt to travel the world around
And run on the ground in the morning.
And that's the story of a wandering soul,
A story of a dreamer.

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There is within me this feeling of guilt because I couldn't stop it.

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I don't know if I've learned so much from people as from events. Events are the best teacher for us. You try to learn from people, there is always some bend to it.

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Remember, our hearts are one. Even when we are at war with each other, our hearts are always beating in unison.

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In a day, sometimes I feel so much love for the world, I think my heart is bursting. Sometimes, I feel so scared, I want to shrink myself even further. I think that's what happened to us gods and goddesses. Like the dinosaurs, we realized that it's too dangerous to be so large. So we kept shrinking ourselves to what we are now. We might get even smaller. I see the sign in the engineers making smaller gadgets, smaller and smaller. Pretty soon, our fingers will be too large to operate them. So what are we doing? I trust in the human wisdom. We are incredibly intelligent beings. So we might know something without thinking that we know…. Well, even my best friend didn't know until now that I was thinking of crazy things like this.

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There is a saying that a glass is half empty or half full, depending on how you look at it. Well, we all know that one. But we cannot just say, okay so half full is how we should look at things. No. We have to go even further in our observation and realize that the glass is actually 100 percent full: 50 percent with water and 50 percent with air.

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