Quotes By Yoko Ono

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.

Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you'll start to see a big difference in your life.

Japanese are very proud and workaholics. Proud workaholics.

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.

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

When you go to war, both sides lose totally.

Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.

At least I had that, one guy understood me.

What we do really affects the world. Most of us think we can't do anything, but it really isn't true.

The nice thing about the gallery shows is that without having to pay any money you can just go and see it.

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

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

Every drop in the ocean counts.

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.

True artists are prophets. I don't want to be that prophetic in that sense because it's so lonely.

The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves.

Music is like my security blanket.

The only instrument I can play is piano. Whenever I make songs at home, I play the piano and make them on the piano.

I have only one life, so I want to make sure it's a good one.

What the Beatles did was something incredible, it was more than what a band could do. We have to give them respect.

I thought art was a verb, rather than a noun.

You can't always measure the effects of activist work; you just have to wish and pray that the message gets through.

War is over if you want it.

If everybody thinks of something, then it will happen. Your mind is part of the universe. It is connected, you can use its energy.

Power is power. It's energy. And if you get big, big energy, you can use that in a good way.

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.

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.

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

It is very difficult for us to know we love somebody because it is an insecure position to be in. But in the end, it is important to be honest about your love because life is not that long.

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