Best 284 quotes of Yoko Ono on MyQuotes

After my husband John Lennon passed away, I tried to smile for my health.

All I’m saying is that perhaps we can make a revolution without violence.

All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!

All my life, I have been in love with the sky. Even when everything was falling apart around me, the sky was always there for me.

All wishes create an upswing line when it is manifested. Therefore, together, it becomes an incredible upswing of power, whatever you wished. Of course, the more high level wishes, which covers the whole human race is stronger than wishing for getting ice cream for your dessert!

All women are feminists. Being a feminist is allowing woman to be natural, for what she is, whatever it is. All of us can be natural and we're all feminists in that sense.

And the more you are active about something you love, the world is going to be a better place.

Anger is an emotion that is very energetic. It is an ideal emotion to turn it around to make it work as a positive force.

Art for me is like breathing. When I stop breathing, what happens?

Art for me is like breathing.

Art is an effort to make you walk a half an inch above ground.

Art is a way of survival.

Art is like breathing for me. If I don't do it, I start to choke.

Art is my life and my life is art.

Artists and musicians of the Sixties were definitely into clothes.

Artists are going to be the metronome of this society.

Artists are magicians and I definitely think John Lennon was a Wizard.

At least I had that, one guy understood me.

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

Basically there are two types of people in the world: people who are confident because they know they have the ability to create, and then people who have been demoralised, who have no confidence in themselves because they have been told they have no creative ability, but must just take orders. The Establishment likes people who take no responsibility and cannot respect themselves.

Beatles was 20th-century folksong in the framework of capitalism; they couldn't do anything different if they wanted to communicate within that framework.

Be silent in a group of people See what they reveal to you.

Be  kind once a day - even if it's just in your mind.

Bless you for your jealousy; it is a sign of empathy.

But only art and music have the power to bring peace.

But think of the violence, it could happen to your kids.

Confusion has become a state of mind, more of less; we're trained to be confused. Quite simply, the people in power are keeping us down, keeping us docile and keeping us consuming with this confusion. It's a cultural confusion and it is deliberate.

Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.

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

Countries have lost their culture because what they wanted was money. Money became the running theme in every country and culture was sacrificed.

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

Dance in your dream. Go out into the street and hug everyone you meet. Tell them how beautiful they are. Dance together.

Dancing is a very healthy thing to do for our body.

DJs are in incredible competition, musically. And they are the most musically creative and sensitive people in all the music charts. I am amazed how they are.

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

Energy is so important. If you don't have it, don't bother with rock and roll.

Even my mother told me: 'You are a handsome woman, but you're not pretty. Pretty girls don't have those big bones.'

Events are the best teacher for us. You try to learn from people, there is always some bend to it.

Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited. I believe in people so much that if the whole of civilization is burned so we don't have any memory of it, even then people will start to build their own art. It is a necessity -- a function. We don't need history.

Every time I create something, just before that there's a kind of - you're feeling very low, you're feeling very down and insecure. Then you create and then it's fine. This is the way I observe me doing it.

Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity.

Faces can lie. Backsides can't.

Fracking is an incredible risk to the human race, I don't know why they even thought of doing it.

Fracking kills, and it doesn't just kill us. It kills the land, nature and, eventually, the whole world.

Getting into creating in a new genre is like arriving to a new country.

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

Give peace a chance and let's hope that one day we will all live in peace.

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.

Healing yourself is connected with healing others.

I admire all people who are trying to be a good power in this chaotic world.