Yoko Ono quotes
Fracking is an incredible risk to the human race, I don't know why they even thought of doing it.
Fracking is an incredible risk to the human race, I don't know why they even thought of doing it.
The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves.
Please know that being 80 is not a scary thing. When you're 80, your life is much freer.
Is truth always positive? Of course. Once the truth comes out, you know, it's all right. We're scared that if the truth comes out that it's not all right. It's the other way around.
It's a waste of time to think that if you colored a painting red what might have happened if you painted it black.
If everybody thinks of something, then it will happen. Your mind is part of the universe. It is connected, you can use its energy.
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.
Most of the fans of John Lennon and maybe John and Yoko are younger than me.
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.
When I was four years old, my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and composition.
What the Beatles did was something incredible, it was more than what a band could do. We have to give them respect.
I'm very thankful that I can make people happy just by signing my name.
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.
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.
When I speak out against the guns or against the big corporations, some of my friends say, 'Oh Yoko, be careful. These people have all the power.' But, you know, most people don't speak out because they are frightened.
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.
Sometimes the father feels pushed out because of the connection between the mother and the child.
People don't remember each tree in a park but all of us benefit from the trees. And in a way, artists are like trees in a park.
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.