The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves. Yoko Ono More Quotes by Yoko Ono More Quotes From Yoko Ono If your judgement is clouded, you must be carrying too many things which are being a burden to you. Yoko Ono cloudedburdenjudgement When you go through a negative situation, don’t think about it. Make it positive. Yoko Ono situationnegativethinking If people want to make war they should make a color war, and paint each others’ cities up in the night in pinks and greens. Yoko Ono colornightwar I have only one life, so I want to make sure it's a good one. Yoko Ono want Stand in the evening light until you become transparent or until you fall asleep. Yoko Ono evening-lighttransparentfall Walking on thin ice, I'm paying the price. Yoko Ono iceairheart I thank Pussy Riot for standing firmly in their belief for Freedom of Expression, and making all women of the world proud to be women. Yoko Ono pussyproudexpression Everything has complexity. Everything has simplicity. You just grab it. Yoko Ono complexitysimplicity you don't need talent to be an artist. 'Artist' is just a frame of mind. Anybody can be an artist, anybody can communicate if they are desperate enough. Yoko Ono artistmindneeds I wonder why men can get serious at all. They have this delicate long thing hanging outside their bodies, which goes up and down by its own will. First of all, having it outside your body is terribly dangerous. If I were a man I would have a fantastic castration complex to the point that I wouldn't be able to do a thing. Second, the inconsistency of it, like carrying a chance time alarm or something. If I were a man I would always be laughing at myself. Yoko Ono laughingmenlong The war industry people are very together; they know exactly what they want; they don't even have to talk to each other. The peace industry people are just intellectuals who are very critical of each other... Unless the peace industry is powerful, we're always going to have war. It is as simple as that. Yoko Ono powerfulsimplewar 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. Yoko Ono inspirationplaysong 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. Yoko Ono playartinteresting Sound as medium has an incredible elasticity. So, of course, it is tempting for artists of other fields to try something with sounds. Why not? We are living in the age when there is no limit in gathering all forms of art and music to mix it together if you so desire. Yoko Ono agedesireart One day, the dance charts will be the biggest chart in the music world. Because we all need to dance. This planet will be a fun planet when the judges in court will end the day with a dance! Yoko Ono one-dayjudgingfun Many of my songs were dance orientated from way back. That's because I love dance! When I hear a dance number, just hearing the first eight bars, it immediately makes my bod start moving and dancing. Yoko Ono eightsongmoving 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. Yoko Ono technologymeanthinking I was born into a very important family in Japan. My grandfather was a descendant of the Emperor, and we were very wealthy. Yoko Ono japanimportantgrandfather I trust myself. You need that to survive. Yoko Ono trust-myselfneeds I think of John every day. I do try to block it, but December 8th is not the only day I think of him. Yoko Ono blockartistthinking
