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 If you're criticized then you can use it as an experience. Compliments, you can't use. Yoko Ono compliments-you use compliment Art for me is like breathing. When I stop breathing, what happens? Yoko Ono breathing happens art I get very sad when I think about Vietnam where there seems to be no choice but violence. This violence goes on for centuries perpetuating itself. Yoko Ono vietnam choices thinking If you have a slave around the house how can you expect to make a revolution outside it? The problem for women is that if we try to be free, then we naturally become lonely, because so many women are willing to become slaves, and men usually prefer that. Yoko Ono lonely house men I never wanted to be a professional artist; I think that's limiting. Yoko Ono artist wanted thinking If I hear dance music, my body starts to move. Whatever the dance music is, I can't help it. With all that, I still felt, well, rock is a little higher art, but it wasn't. Right now, because I have so much experience with dance charts, I started to realize that it's incredible art. This is going to be known one day as high art. Yoko Ono rocks art moving But think of the violence, it could happen to your kids. Yoko Ono violence happens kids Use your blood to paint. Keep painting until you faint. Keep painting until you die. Yoko Ono painting use blood Losing my daughter was a very serious pain. There was always some empty space in my heart. Yoko Ono daughter pain heart I think that all women are witches, in the sense that a witch is a magical being. And a wizard, which is a male version of a witch, is kind of revered, and people respect wizards. But a witch, my god, we have to burn them. It's the male chauvinistic society that we're living in for the longest time, 3,000 years or whatever. And so I just wanted to point out the fact that men and women are magical beings. We are very blessed that way, so I'm just bringing that out. Don't be scared of witches, because we are good witches, and you should appreciate our magical power. Yoko Ono blessed men thinking If someone is unpleasant to you, draw a halo around his or her head in your mind. He/she is an angel who came to teach you something. Yoko Ono learning angel teaching If your life changes, we can change the world, too. Yoko Ono life-changing artist world In the '60s, people were still very protective of each field that they belonged to. Avant-garde artists didn't know about rock or pop or jazz. And the jazz people of course didn't want to know about any other music. They were all just kind of protecting their territory. Yoko Ono rocks artist people Music is like my security blanket. Yoko Ono blanket security music-is Every time I create something, just before that there's a kind of - you're feeling very low, you're feeling very down and insecure. Then you create and then it's fine. This is the way I observe me doing it. Yoko Ono insecure down-and feelings Hide until everybody goes home. Hide until everybody forgets about you. Hide until everybody dies. Yoko Ono dies home forget I think if you give in and accept society's stereotypes, then you start thinking, 'I cannot dance till late at night because I'm 70.' Yoko Ono giving night thinking I'm not the kind of woman who would love to make soup or knit sweaters. I never cherished that so much. Yoko Ono sweaters soup kind Real success is doing things right every day by not forgetting to express love to your friends. Yoko Ono real-success real forget The Establishment likes people who take no responsibility and cannot respect themselves. Yoko Ono likes responsibility people