Quotes About Yoko

#1. 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

#2. 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

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

Yancy Butler

#4. Listen, if anything happens to Yoko and me, it was not an accident.

John Lennon

#5. It's the team that matters. Where would The Beatles be without Ringo. If John got Yoko to play drums the history of music would be completely different.

David

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. Someone like John would want to end the Beatle period and start the Yoko period. He wouldn't like either to interfere with the other.

Paul McCartney

#9. When I speak out against the guns or against the big corporations, some of my friends say, 'Oh Yoko, be careful. These people have all the power.' But, you know, most people don't speak out because they are frightened.

Yoko Ono

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

Patrick Stump

#11. 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

#12. I was a working-class macho guy who was used to being served and Yoko didn't buy that. From the day I met her, she demanded equal time, equal space, equal rights.

John Lennon

#13. 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

#14. "I've always thought there was this underlying thing in Paul's "Get Back." When we were in the studio recording it, every time he sang the line "Get back to where you once belonged," he'd look at Yoko."

John Lennon

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

Albie Sachs

#16. The first line (of I Am The Walrus) was written on one acid trip one weekend. The second line was written on the next acid trip the next weekend, and it was filled in after I met Yoko.

John Lennon

#17. 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

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

Jonas Mekas

#19. 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

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

Philip Norman

#21. I never really got on that well with Yoko anyway. Strangely enough, I only started to get to know her after John's death.

Paul McCartney

#22. 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

#23. I just sat all night looking at him, saying, 'Wow, it's incredible.' When Yoko woke up, I told her, 'He's fine,' and we cried.

John Lennon

#24. We are all Christ and Hitler. Yoko and I want Christ to win.

John Lennon

#25. To keep the record straight, it wasn't always John and Yoko. We've all accused one another of various business things; we tend to be pretty paranoid by now, as you can imagine. There's a lot of money involved.

Paul McCartney

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

Yoko Ono

#27. I'm just being normal. A normal woman. Well, I don't know what a normal woman is, but I'm a woman and I'm Yoko and I've never changed that.

Yoko Ono

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

Madonna Ciccone

#29. Yoko brought the walrus, there was magic in the air.

Ricky Nelson

#30. In 'Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds' I was visualizing Alice in Wonderland, an image of this female who would come and save me - a girl with kaleidoscope eyes who would be the real love of my life. Lucy turned out to be Yoko.

John Lennon

#31. When people get cynical about love, they should look at us [Yoko and John Lennon] and see it is possible

Yoko Ono

#32. 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

#33. First one of you to call me Yoko," Todd warned as he stepped up, "is a dead man.

Ophelia London

#34. Yoko had 10 years and I had 10 years and I would rather have had the 10 years I had than the ones she did. I had the raw talent and the raw human being, before the sycophants arrived.

Cynthia Lennon

#35. We were pretty good mates until the Beatles started to split up and Yoko came into it. It was more like old army buddies splitting up on account of wedding bells.

Paul McCartney

#36. I'm a big fan of Yoko, one of those weird people who really love her music, and who argues with people all the time, because people do write her off.

Boy George

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

Owen Pallett

#38. 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

#39. 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

#40. 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

#41. 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

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

Sibylla Matilde

#43. Creativity is innate and it manifests itself in so many forms. It needs to come out somehow or it destroys you in some way.

Yoko Ono

#44. Math has proven the existence of God, because it is absolute and without contradiction; but the devil must exist as well, because we cannot prove it

Yoko Ogawa

#45. If your judgement is clouded, you must be carrying too many things which are being a burden to you.

Yoko Ono

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

Yoko Ono

#47. The thing is, even after the revolution, if people don't have any trust in themselves, they'll get new problems.

Yoko Ono

#48. They say it'll be even hotter tomorrow. that's how we spend the summer. complaining about the heat.

Yoko Ogawa

#49. If you're criticized then you can use it as an experience. Compliments, you can't use.

Yoko Ono

#50. Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.

Yoko Ono

#51. Remember love. Remember our hearts are one. Even when we are fighting with each other, our hearts are beating in unison. I love you.

Yoko Ono

#52. I was always watching you. This could have been a breathless declaration of love or a final farewell.

Yoko Ogawa

#53. Healing yourself is connected with healing others.

Yoko Ono

#54. Life keeps getting better. If anything, you start to carry a certain pride in having survived all those years.

Yoko Ono

#55. Mirror becomes a razor when it's broken. A stick becomes a flute when it's loved.

Yoko Ono

#56. Give death announcements each time you move instead of giving announcements of the change of address. Send the same when you die.

Yoko Ono

#57. 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

#58. We're growing up together, the human race. And we've discovered a lot of things that we didn't know. We're finding our way. Instead of thinking about doomsday all the time, think about how beautiful the world is. We're all together, and together we're getting wiser.

Yoko Ono

#59. In the Second World War, I was a little girl. I was evacuated in my country.

Yoko Ono

#60. When you are totally depressed, you should try giggling. Just make yourself laugh. Force yourself to laugh.

Yoko Ono

#61. Not being appreciated for 40 years or something ... It feels like I was accused of something that I didn't do, which was breaking up the Beatles. That was like being somebody who is in prison without having done anything wrong.

Yoko Ono

#62. I never thought I would go into the dance charts.

Yoko Ono

#63. My life was pretty rough.

Yoko Ono

#64. Because he had been- and in many ways still was- such a brilliant man, he no doubt understood the nature of his memory problem. It wasn't pride that prevented him from asking for help but a deep aversion to causing more trouble than necessary for those of us who lived in the normal world.

Yoko Ogawa

#65. 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

#66. 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

#67. I think energy is the most important thing that we can give to people as performers. Anything else is a little bit pretentious. But energy is not.

Yoko Ono

#68. When you say 'I love you', you are not just saying it to that person. You are saying 'I love you' to yourself, the planet & The Universe.

Yoko Ono

#69. Artists and musicians of the Sixties were definitely into clothes.

Yoko Ono

#70. My first husband met me as a career woman, and the second did, too. I was lucky.

Yoko Ono

#71. 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

#72. It was clear that he didn't remember me from one day to the next. The note clipped to his sleeve simply informed him that it was not our first meeting, but it could not bring back the memory of the time we had spent together.

Yoko Ogawa

#73. 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

#74. I have been known as the minimal and conceptual artist for over five decades. I think I haven't changed much.

Yoko Ono

#75. Someone once wrote that worrying is the hardest thing about being a parent.

Yoko Ogawa

#76. I see so many activists ... who are artists because they feel that they have the power of communication.

Yoko Ono

#77. I wondered why ordinary words seemed so exotic when they were used in relation to numbers. Amicable numbers or twin primes had a precise quality about them, and yet they sounded as though they'd been taken straight out of a poem.

Yoko Ogawa

#78. 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

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

Yoko Ono

#80. It seemed as though the secret of the universe had miraculously appeared right here at our feet, as though God's notebook had opened under our bench.

Yoko Ogawa

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

Yoko Ono

#82. There is an alternative to war. It's staying in bed and growing your hair.

John Lennon

#83. A problem isn't finished just because you've found the right answer.

Yoko Ogawa

#84. I relate to happiness as an ecstatic moment - something you don't create, you encounter.

Yoko Ono

#85. When we grow up, we find ways to hide our anxieties, our loneliness, our fear and sorrow. But children hide nothing, putting everything into their tears, which they spread liberally about for the whole world to see.

Yoko Ogawa

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

Yoko Ono

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

Yoko Ono

#88. I was afraid that if she went on much longer, her fingers would scrape away my skin, rip my flesh, crush my bones. The pillow was damp with saliva, and I wanted to scream.

Yoko Ogawa

#89. My career? I never think of it as a 'career.' Art and music and all those things that I'm creating are just part of me.

Yoko Ono

#90. 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

#91. The amazing thing is that we could live in the world together peacefully, feed the world, shelter the world. We have that capability both spiritually and technologically.

Yoko Ono

#92. If you have a slave around the house how can you expect to make a revolution outside it? The problem for women is that if we try to be free, then we naturally become lonely, because so many women are willing to become slaves, and men usually prefer that.

Yoko Ono

#93. He had a special feeling for what he called the "correct miscalculation," for he believed that mistakes were often as revealing as the right answers. This gave us confidence even when our best efforts came to nothing.

Yoko Ogawa

#94. I'm very thankful that I can make people happy just by signing my name.

Yoko Ono

#95. Marriage is a gamble, let's be honest.

Yoko Ono

#96. Soon after I began working for the Professor, I realized that he talked about numbers whenever he was unsure of what to say or do. Numbers were also his way of reaching out to the world. They were safe, a source of comfort.

Yoko Ogawa

#97. Bad stories are written about me because the press knows they can make me into a weeping dog and few people will object.

Yoko Ono

#98. I'm sure it must have been even more wonderful then, when we were young and knew nothing about the pain of growing up.

Yoko Ogawa

#99. My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.

Yoko Ono

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

Yoko Ono