Top 121 Yoko Ono Quotes

Many of my songs were dance orientated from way back. That’s because I love dance! When I hear a dance number, just hearing the first eight bars, it immediately makes my bod start moving and dancing.

To me, the concept of distance is not important. Distance doesn’t exist, in fact, and neither does time. Vibrations from love or music can be felt everywhere, at all times.

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

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.

I feel that my work is not in vain, that it does have a place in society, even though it may not be considered that it has a place in society – it doesn’t matter.

When you’re imagining peace, you can’t kill anyone. That’s good isn’t it?

I just want to be healthy and stay alive and keep my family going and everything and keep my friends going and try to do something so that this world will be peaceful. That is the most ambitious and the most difficult thing, but I’m there trying to do it.

I think of John every day. I do try to block it, but December 8th is not the only day I think of him.

People say that this new generation is so used to the Internet that their heads are already different. They can’t read a book from beginning to end. That is not a tragedy. The book changes form.

Reality can be elastic, and I want to see how elastic it can be, you know?

When I got pregnant, I had to concentrate on being pregnant for a whole nine months, even though I knew it was ruining my career at the time.

I think it’s nice to let people know that there is an invisible part of the world. I think there are many people now who are interested in the invisible world.

The Beatles were a group made up of four very complex men, and my small hand could not have broken these men up.

In the ’60s, people were still very protective of each field that they belonged to. Avant-garde artists didn’t know about rock or pop or jazz. And the jazz people of course didn’t want to know about any other music. They were all just kind of protecting their territory.

Art for me is like breathing.

The art world was not initially really accepting my kind of work. I was ahead of my time.

No one person could have broken up a band, especially one the size of the Beatles.

I don’t believe in a chronological way of doing things.

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.

The whole world is starting to realize that it was the most unwise thing for our society to have ignored women power, to run the society with male priorities.

There’s a long life ahead of you and it’s going to be beautiful, as long as you keep loving and hugging each other.

I think that there is a sort of spiritual power that is translating into our bodies as we perform. Performers give, and giving is so important. It can heal. That is my experience, anyway.

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.

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

You know, something happened to me when I became 70. I started to feel a tremendous love for the human race, and life and this planet, the universe, the whole shebang.

I just go with the flow, so any style can be in my music – that makes it exciting.

Society tells you that when you’re old you have to retire. You have to defy that.

Performance art is going to be the future. Plays on Broadway are so restricted. But performance art is like haikus, just one line thing. And it’s more casual but more interesting.

All I can say is, it’s not very easy for a woman to be associated with The Beatles.

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

I’m a very obsessive type. If I do get into it, I’ll soon be there 12 hours a day. I just don’t want to do that.

The regret of my life is that I have not said ‘I love you’ often enough.

I think if you give in and accept society’s stereotypes, then you start thinking, ‘I cannot dance till late at night because I’m 70.’

I relate to happiness as an ecstatic moment – something you don’t create, you encounter.

Some people think that movements, such as the movements in ballet, are a higher cultural expression, whereas some are just dirt. I think it is elitist to think that a trained movement is more acceptable than untrained and possibly unrehearsed movements.

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.

My beauty secret is… nothing! I don’t drink too much water. I don’t eat very well. Sometimes I cheat and grab some chocolate. The best thing is to eat what you want, but not very much.

When Orientals are attacked, they don’t hit back.

Nothing is written in stone. So don’t prepare yourself for a long and lucrative career. You might die tomorrow. Your gold holdings might become dust. Just make the music you want to make now and enjoy it.

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.

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

When people ask me what the most important thing is in life, I answer: ‘Just breathe.’

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

When I turned 60, it didn’t bother me at all.

The computer is my favourite invention. I feel lucky to be part of the global village. I don’t mean to brag, but I’m so fast with technology. People think it all seems too much, but we’ll get used to it. I’m sure it all seemed too much when we were learning to walk.

I think that there is incredible prejudice about witches while there is no prejudice about wizards. Words are very important, and I’m really into destroying myths.

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

War is over if you want it.

I’m free from holding personal anger because I can express what I want through my music.

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

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

Marriage is a gamble, let’s be honest.

Words are power. And a book is full of words. Be careful what power you get from it. But know that you do.

I always thought that I was an important musician. If you don’t have that confidence, why would you go on and do it?

I never thought I would go into the dance charts.

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.

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

Japanese are very proud and workaholics. Proud workaholics.

Mothers are not supposed to give guidance.

People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication.

The process is always the same. I get an inspiration for a new song, I put it down on paper immediately so I won’t lose it. When I am ready to go to the studio with it, I play it a few times on the piano and edit, add, and type the lyrics and take it to the studio. Sometimes I don’t have anything on paper.

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.

Money is not everything. We don’t need billions and trillions of dollars.

We are all dreamers creating the next world, the next beautiful world for ourselves and for our children.

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.

The universe, when you leave it alone, is going to be beautiful.

I realized that if my thoughts immediately affect my body, I should be careful about what I think. Now if I get angry, I ask myself why I feel that way. If I can find the source of my anger, I can turn that negative energy into something positive.

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

Sometimes the father feels pushed out because of the connection between the mother and the child.

I don’t have a goal. I don’t limit myself to a goal.

Why do they cover Paul’s songs but never mine?

It’s a waste of time to think that if you colored a painting red what might have happened if you painted it black.

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

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

People just love to be entertained, and in order to entertain them, you have to do things in a way that they understand.