Quotes By Yoko Ono

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

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.

A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.

I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it.

Art is my life and my life is art.

Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.

Most of the fans of John Lennon and maybe John and Yoko are younger than me.

War is over if you want it.

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

Being alone is very difficult.

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.

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?

Artists are going to be the metronome of this society.

At least I had that, one guy understood me.

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

Marriage is a gamble, let's be honest.

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

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

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

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.

Women artists are still treated differently from men.

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

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

Distance doesn't exist, in fact, and neither does time. Vibrations from love or music can be felt everywhere, at all times.

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