Quotes About Yoko Ono

#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. 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

#5. 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

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

Patrick Stump

#7. 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

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

Albie Sachs

#9. 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

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

Jonas Mekas

#11. 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

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

Philip Norman

#13. 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

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

Madonna Ciccone

#15. 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

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

Owen Pallett

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. 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

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

Sibylla Matilde

#22. 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

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

Yoko Ono

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

Yoko Ono

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

Yoko Ono

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

Yoko Ono

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

Yoko Ono

#28. 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

#29. Healing yourself is connected with healing others.

Yoko Ono

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

Yoko Ono

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

Yoko Ono

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

Yoko Ono

#33. 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

#34. 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

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

Yoko Ono

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

Yoko Ono

#37. 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

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

Yoko Ono

#39. My life was pretty rough.

Yoko Ono

#40. 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

#41. 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

#42. 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

#43. 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

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

Yoko Ono

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

Yoko Ono

#46. 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

#47. 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

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

Yoko Ono

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

Yoko Ono

#50. 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

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

Yoko Ono

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

Yoko Ono

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

John Lennon

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

Yoko Ono

#55. 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

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

Yoko Ono

#57. 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

#58. 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

#59. 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

#60. 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

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

Yoko Ono

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

Yoko Ono

#63. 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

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

Yoko Ono

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

Yoko Ono

#66. I never thought, "I'm going to be an artist". When I actually began to become successful in the art world I made it a point to say, 'I am a dilettante, I am not a professional artist", which is true.

Yoko Ono

#67. Women are put in a position of feeling embarrassed about their bodies. It's so ridiculous, but also astounding - we have to always be apologetic about having created the human race.

Yoko Ono

#68. There's a big difference between sending your art in a statement or something like that, and sending yourself there. When you send yourself somewhere, then you are sharing your information uncontrollably - like all yourself.

Yoko Ono

#69. Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.

Yoko Ono

#70. You should do something that will make your heart dance once a day. If you can't do that because you're too depressed, then do something that will make somebody else's heart dance.

Yoko Ono

#71. I've always said that I use my voice as an instrument. It was something I created myself, and I said, 'Have voice, will travel.'

Yoko Ono

#72. What a beautiful future it will be! Don't worry about life being boring. It will never be.

Yoko Ono

#73. The sky is always there for me, while my life has been going through many, many changes. When I look up the sky, it gives me a nice feeling, like looking at an old friend.

Yoko Ono

#74. Music is like my security blanket.

Yoko Ono

#75. 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

#76. I often wish my mother had died so that at least I could get some people's sympathy. But there she was, a perfectly beautiful mother.

Yoko Ono

#77. When I hear music, my body just starts to move. It has nothing to do with training or anything. That's just me. That's just my body. And I was like that as a child, too.

Yoko Ono

#78. If your life changes, we can change the world, too.

Yoko Ono

#79. Next time you meet a 'foreigner', remember it's only like a window with a different shape to it and the person who's sitting inside is you.

Yoko Ono

#80. I don't think you should always stay calm in a tense situation, because you might not ever confront the problem. Maybe it's better to actually let yourself be tense - and find a solution.

Yoko Ono

#81. 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

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

Yoko Ono

#83. Most people think that I am too optimistic, but my optimism is based on the thought that negative thinking is a luxury that we can't afford.

Yoko Ono

#84. 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

#85. The only way you can better John is by copying him exactly.

Yoko Ono

#86. 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

#87. Use your blood to paint. Keep painting until you faint. Keep painting until you die.

Yoko Ono

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

Yoko Ono

#89. It's better to dance than to march through life.

Yoko Ono

#90. 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

#91. 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

#92. 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.

Yoko Ono

#93. Why do they cover Paul's songs but never mine?

Yoko Ono

#94. What is beauty? It's what you love.

Yoko Ono

#95. 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

#96. I have only one life, so I want to make sure it's a good one.

Yoko Ono

#97. The first idea, the first art piece I ever did, was when I was four. I cut the seed of a pear in half and the seed of an apple in half in put those two halves together and planted the seed, hoping a very strange tree might grow. And I never stopped.

Yoko Ono

#98. I'm not interested so much in collaboration. You see that from the history of my albums.

Yoko Ono

#99. All I'm saying is that perhaps we can make a revolution without violence.

Yoko Ono

#100. 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