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Yoko Ono


American
February 18, 1933
Artist
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Being alone is very difficult.


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Tags: Alone Very Being
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You change the world by being yourself.


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Tags: Change You World
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A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.


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Tags: Alone You Only
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Energy is so important. If you don't have it, don't bother with rock and roll.


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We are all dreamers creating the next world, the next beautiful world for ourselves and for our children.
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Losing my daughter was a very serious pain. There was always some empty space in my heart.


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


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Tags: People Me Just
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The regret of my life is that I have not said 'I love you' often enough.


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Tags: You Life Love
What the Beatles did was something incredible, it was more than what a band could do. We have to give them respect.
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Tags: Respect More Them
I was born into a very important family in Japan. My grandfather was a descendant of the Emperor, and we were very wealthy.
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DJs are in incredible competition, musically. And they are the most musically creative and sensitive people in all the music charts. I am amazed how they are.
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Tags: Music People How
Women are very intelligent and not appreciated. We try to pretend that we are not clever, and it's such a pity that we can't show how clever we are.
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Tags: Women Very How
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.
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Tags: People Think Who
People think that their world will get smaller as they get older. My experience is just the opposite. Your senses become more acute. You start to blossom.
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Our public officials have forgotten that they are ultimately accountable to the people who put them in office, that the information they keep in secrecy belongs to all of us.
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Tags: People Who Our
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.
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The human race is a very, very magical race. We have a magic power of witches and wizards. We're here on this earth to unravel the mystery of this planet. The planet is asking for it.
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Tags: Power Very Human
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.
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Tags: You People Your
Sometimes I am happy and sometimes not. I am, after all, a human being, you know. And I am glad that we are sometimes happy and sometimes not. You get your wisdom working by having different emotions.
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Tags: You Get Know
This society is driven by neurotic speed and force accelerated by greed and frustration of not being able to live up to the image of men and woman we have created for ourselves; the image has nothing to do with the reality of people.
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In the '60s we fought for peace, when the Vietnam war was on. We were against the cops and against the politicians, and there was a lot of waving banners and all that. And I think in a way, just as they were enjoying that machoism of war, we were enjoying the machismo of being anti-war, you know?
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Tags: War Peace You
I always believed that my work should be unfinished in the sense that I encourage people to add their creativity to it, either conceptually or physically. Back in the 1960s, I was calling for 'Unfinished Music,' number one, and number two, with my artwork - I was taking unfinished work into the gallery. And that's how I was looking at it.
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Tags: Work Music People
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.
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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.
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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.
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Tags: Get Always Go