Ono Quotes

#1. People like Aphex Twin, Jason Pierce, Jarvis Cocker and William Orbit are actively showing their interest in a wider field of music. Jarvis and I met on a benefit for an extraordinary man called LaMonte Young, the father of minimalism, who worked with John Cale and shared a loft with Yoko Ono.

Charles Hazlewood

#2. Jesus, Denny." she muttered, "I felt like fucking Yoko Ono.

Sibylla Matilde

#3. Yoko [Ono] was showing me some of these Haiku in the original. The difference between them and Long fellow is immense. Instead of a long flowery poem the Haiku would say 'Yellow flower in white bowl on wooden table' which gives you the whole picture.

John Lennon

#4. I only ever asked two people to work with me as a partner. One was Paul McCartney and the other Yoko Ono. Paul and me were the Beatles.

John Lennon

#5. When I brought 'El Topo' to New York, no one understood the picture. But John Lennon understood. John and Yoko Ono, they presented 'El Topo' in the United States; they introduced it.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

#6. When John Lennon left the Beatles and started making music with Yoko Ono, many people scoffed at the idea. How could this talented man with so many hit songs give it all up? Well, we all know it was love, but beyond that, it was a leap of faith to try something new.

Ashley Bryan

#7. Its easy to gauge the worth of a man, just ask them what they think of Yoko Ono.

Owen Pallett

#8. Atra gulai un ilian tauthr ono un atra ono waise skolir fra rauthr. - Let luck and happiness follow you and may you be shielded from misfortune.

Christopher Paolini

#9. I like all kinds of music but some of my all time favorites are P.I.L., Yoko Ono, T-Rex, and Anton Karas.

Marcel Dzama

#10. I bought [John Lennon's] 'Plastic Ono Band,' and I listened to it over and over for months. It's a monumental work of genius ...

Lenny Kravitz

#11. The Ono-Sendai; next year's most expensive Hosaka computer; a Sony monitor; a dozen disks of corporate-grade ice; a Braun coffeemaker.

William Gibson

#12. Jean-Baptiste Mondino: "She's John Lennon and Yoko Ono at the same time".

Madonna Ciccone

#13. There are limits to human beings and science, and fiction is one way to expose those limits. --Ono Norihiro

Patrick W. Galbraith

#14. Jiro Ono serves Edo-style traditional sushi, the same 20 or 30 pieces he's been making his whole life, and he's still unsatisfied with the quality and every day wakes up and trains to make the best. And that is as close to a religious experience in food as one is likely to get.

Anthony Bourdain

#15. Yoko [Ono] was well into liberation before I met her. She'd had to fight her way through a man's world - the art world is completely dominated by men - so she was full of revolutionary zeal when we met.

John Lennon

#16. Yoko Ono is someone who's music I've discovered more recently. The current cd rereleases of her albums all had bonus tracks recorded just with a tape recorder and I'm really into these at the moment because they have a great intimate feel.

Marcel Dzama

#17. There was never any question about it: we [with Yoko Ono] had to have a 50-50 relationship or there was no relationship, I was quick to learn.

John Lennon

#18. We're the only ones who care now. The likes of you and me, Ono, when we look back over our lives and see they were flawed, we're the only ones who care now.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#19. I grew up in Greenwich Village. Dad was friends with John Lennon and Yoko Ono.

Yancy Butler

#20. The problem with Double Fantasy was the arrangement whereby they alternated John Lennon tracks with Yoko Ono tracks. You couldn't escape Yoko for more than four minutes at a time.

Adrian McKinty

#21. We live in a country where John Lennon takes eight bullets, Yoko Ono is walking right beside him and not one hits her. Explain that to me!

Denis Leary

#22. Yoko Ono never deserved any of the hate she got. Paul McCartney and John Lennon weren't getting along.

Patrick Stump

#23. DAYS THAT I'LL REMEMBER is a lovingly assembled and beautifully written collection of conversations, observations, and memories of music, friendship, and days gone by. It's good to be back again with John Lennon, his beloved Yoko Ono, and his trusted chronicler and friend Jonathan Cott.

Martin Scorsese

#24. Now. Put it in forward."
"Okay, just don't hurt Yoko." "Yoko?"
"My car." "You named your car Yoko? As in Ono?"
"You have a better name?" "How about Subaru?
"I'm shifting!

Carrie Jones

#25. Atra esterni' ono thelduin
Mor' rana li'fa unin hjarta onr
Un du evari'nya ono varda
(May good fortune rule over you
peace live in your heart
may the stars watch over you)

Christopher Paolini

#26. The scratches in Yoko Ono records are moments of relief.

Albie Sachs

#27. When Yoko [Ono] and I got married, we got terrible racialist letters - you know, warning me that she would slit my throat. Those mainly came from Army people living in Aldershot. Officers.

John Lennon

#28. I brought Yoko Ono to New York and gave her her first job there. I was editing a magazine called 'Film Culture.'

Jonas Mekas

#29. Yoko Ono, quite simply, did things that John Lennon did not dare.

Philip Norman

#30. A country outside the euro zone cannot have a veto over countries in the euro zone.

Francois Hollande

#31. When I first dropped into L.A., I wanted to be a superhero!

Derek Theler

#32. Nations, like men, are wary of truth, for truth is too often not beautiful.

Addison Gayle Jr.

#33. Jail is just another micro-society. It just happens that here, the problems are far more out in the open, we don't live with the facades of lies that democracy or capitalism creates for us.

Cecily McMillan

#34. I remember that - you know, I didn't receive a formal education. I was educated in the Montevideo cafe, in the cafes of Montevideo. There, I received my first lessons in the art of telling stories, storytelling.

Eduardo Galeano

#35. I think it is really important to put out what you want so the world knows what to give you.

Elizabeth Banks

#36. In Japan, there is the phrase 'shoshin', which translates to 'beginner's mind'. Maintaining a beginner's mind is the goal of practicing.

Bob Smith

#37. Every Song
Every song
is the remains
of love.
Every light
the remains
of time.
A knot
of time.
And every sigh
the remains
of a cry.

Federico Garcia Lorca