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Famous Yoko Ono Quotes
“I'm not interested so much in collaboration. You see that from the history of my albums.”
“I'm very thankful that I can make people happy just by signing my name.”
“If a woman writes about a domestic situation, everyone automatically assumes that it's about her.”
“If you go back to all my albums, they're all confessional.”
“In the Second World War, I was a little girl. I was evacuated in my country.”
“Japanese are very proud and workaholics. Proud workaholics.”
“Losing my daughter was a very serious pain. There was always some empty space in my heart.”
“Money is not everything. We don't need billions and trillions of dollars.”
“People are still thinking of solving problems by violence and war, and that has to stop.”
“Please know that being 80 is not a scary thing. When you're 80, your life is much freer.”
“Power is power. It's energy. And if you get big, big energy, you can use that in a good way.”
“Society tells you that when you're old you have to retire. You have to defy that.”
“Sometimes the father feels pushed out because of the connection between the mother and the child.”
“The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves.”
“The art world was not initially really accepting my kind of work. I was ahead of my time.”
“The regret of my life is that I have not said 'I love you' often enough.”
“We artists have the dignity to tell the truth to the people, unlike politicians.”
“When people ask me what the most important thing is in life, I answer: 'Just breathe.'”
“When you're imagining peace, you can't kill anyone. That's good isn't it?”
