Yoko Ono Professions : Artist Born : February 18, 1933 Browse All Authors Top 362 quotes by Yoko Ono Music is like my security blanket. The first medium that I learned was music. Yoko Ono blanket music-is firsts My work was not embraced for many decades. I would have killed myself if getting embraced affected me so much. Yoko Ono decades affected ifs Nobody's life is a bed of roses. We all have crosses to bear and we all just do our best. Yoko Ono widows bed-of-roses bears I don't particularly consider myself just an artist. I'm a woman - I'm a human being. Yoko Ono human-beings humans artist I don't really believe in going with somebody to have tea and chat. I don't do that. It's just a waste of time. Yoko Ono waste tea believe You're filled with so much life. Is there any reason why all of us are not full of life? Yoko Ono life-is reason reason-why Not being appreciated for 40 years or something ... It feels like I was accused of something that I didn't do, which was breaking up the Beatles. That was like being somebody who is in prison without having done anything wrong. Yoko Ono prison done years Some people are saying there's going to be a third World War. I hope not. I really think this is a time that people can start to mend things by negotiations, dealings. We know about dealings, don't we? We have brilliant lawyers. Why don't we have brilliant lawyers standing up and working for peace? Yoko Ono war people thinking All wishes create an upswing line when it is manifested. Therefore, together, it becomes an incredible upswing of power, whatever you wished. Of course, the more high level wishes, which covers the whole human race is stronger than wishing for getting ice cream for your dessert! Yoko Ono ice-cream race wish We don't read people's wishes. The wishes are suppose to be direct communication to the Universe. Your interception will weaken the power of the wish. Yoko Ono communication wish people When I'm inspired, I jot things down and put them in a pile. Yoko Ono inspired down-and I don't work for a long time on anything. I don't have too much time in life. Yoko Ono long-time too-much long I trust in my inspiration, really, and that's difficult because sometimes you would rather be technical. And once you empty your mind, empty your brain, it's really incredible. I'm very caring about things that dash into my brain, and I make sure I don't just clog it. Yoko Ono caring inspiration brain Beatles was 20th-century folksong in the framework of capitalism; they couldn't do anything different if they wanted to communicate within that framework. Yoko Ono framework century different Love is an incredibly strong thing, it goes everywhere, it's like water, you can't stop it. Love, once you have it, once you create a kind of pathway for it to come out, it just keeps on coming out. Yoko Ono strong love-is water I never thought, "I'm going to be an artist". When I actually began to become successful in the art world I made it a point to say, 'I am a dilettante, I am not a professional artist", which is true. Yoko Ono successful world art All I’m saying is that perhaps we can make a revolution without violence. Yoko Ono revolution violence 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 everyday years Our thoughts determine our age. Yoko Ono our-thoughts determine age The universe is a space bigger than all of us we are part of. Yoko Ono bigger universe space Similar Authors Burton Silverman artist Bruce Nauman artist Bruce Conner artist Brom artist Britney Spears artist Brigid Berlin artist All Authors