Latest Yoko Ono Quotes from Interviews

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• Dance music makes us dance. Let us get off our couch and spin around!

  Yoko Ono

  Couches, Dance Music

• You're filled with so much life. Is there any reason why all of us are not full of life?

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  Reason Why, Life Is, Reason

• Real success is doing things right every day by not forgetting to express love to your friends.

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  Real, Forget, Real Success

• We don't have a particular organization, but we all want to make a world in which justice is given to each one of us.

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  Organization, Justice, World

• Long, long time ago, I declared that all my works are a form of a prayer/a wish.

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  Prayer, Long, Wish

• 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.

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  Emotion, Force, Energetic

• What all of us artists are doing is using our pain as material to create our work.

  Yoko Ono

  Pain, Artist, Materials

• These days, DJ's are the ones who are bringing fresh sounds to the music world. In fact, they are creating a new spatial music. They are the space transformers of the universe.

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  Creating, Space, Facts

• Some people don't listen to my music because they say that I am an artist. And some don't want to go to my gallery shows, because they say I am a musician.

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  Artist, People, Want

• The universe is a space bigger than all of us we are part of.

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  Space, Bigger, Universe

• You are beautiful. Don't ever think you are not. It may be such a compliment that does not come from a man too often. They are shy, proud, and rude. Give yourself some love. And walk as what you are - a beautiful woman. All your life.

  Yoko Ono

  Beautiful, Men, Thinking

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

• Love is what I give to the one I love.

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  Love Is, Giving

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

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

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  Decades, Affected, Ifs

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

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

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  Country, Genre Is, Creating

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

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

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  Different, Century, Framework

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

• 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

  Lonely, Men, House

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

• You can't love someone unless you are in an equal position with them. A lot of women have to cling to men out of fear or insecurity, and that's not love - basically that's why women hate men.

  Yoko Ono

  Hate, Men, Insecurity

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

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

  Yoko Ono

  People, Revolution, Problem

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

• 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.

• In a way the new music showed things could be transformed by new channels of communication.

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  Communication, Way, New Music

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

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

  Yoko Ono

  Kids, Violence, Happens

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

• 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.

• 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.

• I get very sad when I think about Vietnam where there seems to be no choice but violence. This violence goes on for centuries perpetuating itself.

  Yoko Ono

  Thinking, Choices, Vietnam

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

• 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