There are things you can never take, no matter how strong you are. Yoko Ono More Quotes by Yoko Ono More Quotes From Yoko Ono Transform jealousy to admiration, and what you admire will become part of your life. Yoko Ono admiration admire jealousy I relate to happiness as an ecstatic moment - something you don't create, you encounter. Yoko Ono relate encounters moments I saw sorrow turning into clarity. Yoko Ono saws sad sorrow 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. Yoko Ono peaceful healthy trying It's better to dance than to march through life. Yoko Ono march creativity dancing Please know that being 80 is not a scary thing. When you're 80, your life is much freer. Yoko Ono please scary life-is Cosmetics is a boon to every woman, but a girl's best beauty aid is still a near-sighted man. Yoko Ono girl beauty men The cynicism that you have is not your real soul. Yoko Ono artist real soul I am extremely rebellious. I have this strong, defiant spirit. Yoko Ono rebellious strong spirit People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication. Yoko Ono communication artist people Music is something that even when you close your eyes it gets into your body. Yoko Ono music-is body eye 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. Yoko Ono unfinished-work creativity two When I was 4 years old my mother put me into an early music education school. That's where they taught you perfect pitch and harmony and how to write music and all that. At that time, one of the homeworks was to listen to all the sounds and the noise of a day and transfer that into musical notes. Yoko Ono mother writing school I think something that's very important for us to communicate is usually very simple. Like breathing: Breathing is very simple. You don't do a dissonant 9th harmony or something in breathing. You just breathe, you know. I think that's how it is with very important messages. Yoko Ono breathing simple thinking Imagine a dolphin dancing in the sky. Let it dance with joy. Think of yourself at the bottom of the ocean watching. Yoko Ono ocean inspirational thinking The amazing thing is that we could live in the world together peacefully, feed the world, shelter the world. We have that capability both spiritually and technologically. Yoko Ono shelter together world Anger is an emotion that is very energetic. It is an ideal emotion to turn it around to make it work as a positive force. Yoko Ono energetic force emotion All women are feminists. Being a feminist is allowing woman to be natural, for what she is, whatever it is. All of us can be natural and we're all feminists in that sense. Yoko Ono allowing feminist natural Some people get medals and awards and all that, and maybe not intentionally - maybe the world is making them do it - but they sort of just follow what they were doing. Repeat or follow what they were doing all their lives, in their style of music or whatever. In my case, I always try to start from scratch. It's very nerve-wracking actually, but it's interesting. Yoko Ono awards people interesting When I hear music, my body just starts to move. It has nothing to do with training or anything. That's just me. That's just my body. And I was like that as a child, too. Yoko Ono training children moving