Yoko Ono Quotes - Page 14

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• I want to incite people to loosen their oppression by giving them something to work with, to build on. They shouldn't be frightened of creating themselves - that's why I make things very open, with things for people to do.

  Yoko Ono

  Creating, People, Giving

  "The Lost John Lennon Interview". Interview with Tariq Ali and Robin Blackburn, www.counterpunch.org. December 8, 2005.

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• 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!

  Yoko Ono

  Ice Cream, Race, Wish

  Source: www.yashawallin.com

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• 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

  Art, Differences, Information

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 26, 2013.

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• 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

  War, Thinking, People

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• I don't think you make a choice to be an artist. There was no decision for me. I've been expressing myself this way since I can remember.

  Yoko Ono

  Artist, Thinking, Choices

  Source: interviewswithicons.wordpress.com

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• When I'm inspired, I jot things down and put them in a pile.

  Yoko Ono

  Down And, Inspired

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 26, 2013.

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• I don't really believe in going with somebody to have tea and chat. I don't do that. It's just a waste of time.

  Yoko Ono

  Believe, Tea, Waste

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 26, 2013.

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• 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

  Years, Done, Prison

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 26, 2013.

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• It's better that you're criticized than complimented as a person.

  Yoko Ono

  Persons

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 26, 2013.

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• 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

  Creativity, Needs, Way

  Source: interviewswithicons.wordpress.com

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• Music is like my security blanket. The first medium that I learned was music.

  Yoko Ono

  Firsts, Music Is, Blanket

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• 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

  Art, Cutting, Ideas

  Source: interviewswithicons.wordpress.com

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• 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

  Art, Successful, World

  Source: interviewswithicons.wordpress.com

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• I never went to art school and I never thought of going to an art school. It was just a way of manifesting these ideas I had. Ideas came to me that I needed to express.

  Yoko Ono

  Art, School, Ideas

  Source: interviewswithicons.wordpress.com

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• I am the type of person who would do something thoroughly if someone said, "I don't think you can do it." I am extremely rebellious. I have this strong, defiant spirit.

  Yoko Ono

  Strong, Thinking, Spirit

  Interview with Takashi Murakami, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 27, 2009.

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

  Yoko Ono

  Violence, Revolution

  "The Lost John Lennon Interview". Interview with Tariq Ali, Robin Blackburn, www.counterpunch.org. December 8, 2005.

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• I started to notice that simpleness is divine. I think we all start trying to use very complex harmonies and rhythms and all that because of a certain kind of ambition. But I was always trying to create something simple.

  Yoko Ono

  Ambition, Simple, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Our thoughts determine our age.

  Yoko Ono

  Age, Determine, Our Thoughts

  Interview with Takashi Murakami, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 27, 2009.

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• There's nothing bad about feminism. We have to help each other, because there's a lot of women in the world who are suffering because the fact is we're not equal. It's as plain as that. It's still a men's world. I don't know. We'll go on with it.

  Yoko Ono

  Men, Suffering, Feminism

  "Yoko Ono on Lennon, Love, Feminism, and Japan". Interview with Deenah Vollmer, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 22, 2011.

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• We are very lucky really, because we can create our own reality, John [Lennon] and me, but we know the important thing is to communicate with other people.

  Yoko Ono

  Reality, People, Important

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• We mustn't be traditional in the way we communicate with people - especially with the Establishment. We should surprise people by saying new things in an entirely new way. Communication of that sort can have a fantastic power so long as you don't do only what they expect you to do.

  Yoko Ono

  Communication, Long, People

  "The Lost John Lennon Interview". Interview with Tariq Ali, www.counterpunch.org. December 8, 2005.

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• My work was not embraced for many decades. I would have killed myself if getting embraced affected me so much.

  Yoko Ono

  Decades, Affected, Ifs

  "Yoko Ono @80". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, February 26, 2013.

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• Peace is here now. It's just that we don't recognize it. Let's say that 98 percent of people in the world are wanting peace. Now people say, even people from Siberia? Yes. We want world peace. The two percent is really tying to mess it up. It's so sad in a way, because by messing it up what are they going to get? Their children are going to suffer, their grandchildren are going to suffer, and they might even die before something gets good.

  Yoko Ono

  Children, Two, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Yoko Ono

  Country, Genre Is, Creating

  "Yoko Ono @80". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, February 26, 2013.

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• In the present age when communication is so rapid, we should create a different tradition, traditions are created everyday. Five years now is like 100 years before. We are living in a society that has no history. There’s no precedent for this kind of society so we can break the old patterns.

  Yoko Ono

  Communication, Years, Everyday

  "The Lost John Lennon Interview". Interview with Tariq Ali, Robin Blackburn, www.counterpunch.org. December 8, 2005.

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