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Yoko Ono Quotes
Yoko Ono Quotes
Yoko Ono
American
Artist
Born:
Feb 18
,
1933
Life
Me
Music
People
Think
You
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I think that there is incredible prejudice about witches while there is no prejudice about wizards. Words are very important, and I'm really into destroying myths.
Yoko Ono
Words
Important
Think
Incredible
Destroying
About
Myths
Witches
Wizards
Very
While
Really
Prejudice
Great Art is Great because it inspired you greatly. If it didn't, no matter what the critics, the museums and the galleries say, it's not great art for you.
Yoko Ono
Art
Great
You
Matter
Great Art
Say
Critics
Inspired
Because
Greatly
Galleries
Museums
Energy is so important. If you don't have it, don't bother with rock and roll.
Yoko Ono
You
Important
Energy
Bother
Rock
Rock And Roll
Roll
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
Best
You
Water
Sometimes
Too Much
Beauty
Nothing
Too
Secret
Eat
Some
Drink
Cheat
Well
Very
Grab
Want
Chocolate
Much
Thing
When you are totally depressed, you should try giggling. Just make yourself laugh. Force yourself to laugh.
Yoko Ono
You
Yourself
Try
Laugh
Totally
Force
Make
Just
Depressed
Should
Our public officials have forgotten that they are ultimately accountable to the people who put them in office, that the information they keep in secrecy belongs to all of us.
Yoko Ono
People
Secrecy
Our
Put
Ultimately
Accountable
Office
Officials
Forgotten
Information
Public
Them
Us
Public Officials
Who
Keep
Belongs
True artists are prophets. I don't want to be that prophetic in that sense because it's so lonely.
Yoko Ono
Lonely
Sense
Prophetic
Prophets
True
Because
Artists
Want
Artists are going to be the metronome of this society.
Yoko Ono
Society
Going
Artists
I did not break up the Beatles. You can't have it both ways. If you're going to blame me for breaking the Beatles up, you should be thankful that I made them into myth rather than a crumbling group.
Yoko Ono
Thankful
Me
You
Beatles
Blame
Made
Myth
Group
Ways
Be Thankful
Rather
Both
Both Ways
Crumbling
Up
Than
Did
Going
Break
Break Up
Breaking
Them
Should
Even my mother told me: 'You are a handsome woman, but you're not pretty. Pretty girls don't have those big bones.'
Yoko Ono
Me
You
Woman
Mother
Girl
Big
Those
Pretty
Pretty Girls
Handsome
Even
Bones
I see so many activists... who are artists because they feel that they have the power of communication.
Yoko Ono
Communication
Power
See
Feel
Because
Artists
Who
Many
Activists
Dancing is a very healthy thing to do for our body.
Yoko Ono
Healthy
Our
Dancing
Healthy Thing
Very
Body
Thing
Reality can be elastic, and I want to see how elastic it can be, you know?
Yoko Ono
You
Reality
See
Know
How
Want
Elastic
If you have too many quotes from other people in your head, you can't create. You have to keep your head empty. That's why I am constantly enjoying the sky, the park, the walk.
Yoko Ono
You
People
Walk
Sky
Too
Other
Constantly
Park
Head
Empty
Am
Quotes
Create
Your
Many
Keep
Why
Enjoying
I always believed that my work should be unfinished in the sense that I encourage people to add their creativity to it, either conceptually or physically. Back in the 1960s, I was calling for 'Unfinished Music,' number one, and number two, with my artwork - I was taking unfinished work into the gallery. And that's how I was looking at it.
Yoko Ono
Work
Music
Creativity
People
Unfinished
Looking
Sense
Add
Back
Physically
Taking
Calling
Always
How
Encourage
Artwork
Either
Gallery
Should
Believed
Number
Two
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
Time
You
Black
Painting
Think
Colored
Red
Happened
Might
Painted
Waste
Waste Of Time
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
Love
You
Suffering
Yourself
People
Somebody
First
Become
Understanding
Too
Other
About
Follows
More
Step
Also
First Step
Understand
Then
Sufferings
Events are the best teacher for us. You try to learn from people, there is always some bend to it.
Yoko Ono
Teacher
Best
You
People
Events
Try
Bend
Some
Learn
Always
Us
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.
Yoko Ono
Future
Art
Broadway
One Line
Restricted
More
Casual
Performance
Performance Art
Like
Line
Going
Just
Just One
Interesting
Thing
Plays
We don't live by just sleeping and eating. We need pride and dignity in our lives. Work gives you that.
Yoko Ono
Work
You
Dignity
Pride
Live
Sleeping
Our
Our Lives
Eating
Gives
Just
Lives
Need
I like artists who have something to say, not wallpaper.
Yoko Ono
Say
Something
Like
Wallpaper
Artists
Who
When people don't understand my work, I don't feel like explaining.
Yoko Ono
Work
People
Feel
Like
Understand
Explaining
I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it.
Yoko Ono
You
Lose
Nothing
Saw
Possess
Because
Permanent
Dear
Want
Anything
Might
I think of John every day. I do try to block it, but December 8th is not the only day I think of him.
Yoko Ono
Day
Every Day
Try
Every
Think
John
Only
Him
Block
December
I have only one life, so I want to make sure it's a good one.
Yoko Ono
Life
Good
Only
Make
Sure
Want
Society tells you that when you're old you have to retire. You have to defy that.
Yoko Ono
You
Old
Society
Defy
Tells
Retire
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