Yoko Ono
Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity.Collection: Anger
There's a long life ahead of you and it's going to be beautiful, as long as you keep loving and hugging each other.Collection: Valentines
I did not break up the Beatles. You can't have it both ways. If you're going to blame me for breaking the Beatles up, you should be thankful that I made them into myth rather than a crumbling group.Collection: Thankful
Healing yourself is connected with healing others.Collection: Moving
I trust myself. You need that to survive.Collection: Trust
I'm very thankful that I can make people happy just by signing my name.Collection: Thankful
Every drop in the ocean counts.Collection: Environmental
I relate to happiness as an ecstatic moment - something you don't create, you encounter.Collection: Happiness
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.Collection: Health
I see so many activists... who are artists because they feel that they have the power of communication.Collection: Communication
There's many women now who think, 'Surely we don't need feminism anymore, we're all liberated and society's accepting us as we are'. Which is just hogwash. It's not true at all.Collection: Society
Remember, each one of us has the power to change the world. Just start thinking peace, and the message will spread quicker than you think.Collection: Peace
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?Collection: War
I was being hated for about 40 or 50 years by the whole world, but it did not destroy me, and it did not ruin my health. And the reason is because I just did not answer them. I had my own life.Collection: Health
Art is my life and my life is art.Collection: Art
I travel a lot, so when I arrive in a city, I like to go to good local bookshops and make a selection based on how I'm feeling and what I'm thinking. The book I pick usually seems to have a definite karmic connection!Collection: Travel
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.Collection: Technology
Being alone is very difficult.Collection: Alone
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.Collection: Anger
Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you'll start to see a big difference in your life.Collection: Morning
Women have become stronger, and there's a backlash. Men have become terribly possessive. I find it much easier to get on with women.Collection: Women
I've always said that I use my voice as an instrument. It was something I created myself, and I said, 'Have voice, will travel.'Collection: Travel
You change the world by being yourself.Collection: Change
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.Collection: Experience
A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.Collection: Alone
Marriage is a gamble, let's be honest.Collection: Marriage
Marriage is a difficult project. When seven years have passed and all your body's cells have been replaced, you're meant to experience that seven-year itch.Collection: Marriage
Nothing is written in stone. So don't prepare yourself for a long and lucrative career. You might die tomorrow. Your gold holdings might become dust. Just make the music you want to make now and enjoy it.Collection: Music
Events are the best teacher for us. You try to learn from people, there is always some bend to it.Collection: Teacher
When I'm putting some communication out on Twitter or Facebook or Instagram, I think that it's helping me, my brain, you know, because it's always somehow stimulated by people who are sending things to me. And it works both ways. It's great. My brain is very happy about it.Collection: Communication
After my husband John Lennon passed away, I tried to smile for my health.Collection: Smile
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.Collection: Society
Society tells you that when you're old you have to retire. You have to defy that.Collection: Society
People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication.Collection: Communication
What the Beatles did was something incredible, it was more than what a band could do. We have to give them respect.Collection: Respect
I'm free from holding personal anger because I can express what I want through my music.Collection: Anger
Nobody's life is a bed of roses. We all have crosses to bear, and we all just do our best. I would never claim to have the worst situation. There are many widows, and many people dying of AIDS, many people killed in Lebanon, people starving all over the planet. So we have to count our lucky stars.Collection: Best
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.Collection: Future
Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.Collection: Nature
When I turned 60, it didn't bother me at all.Collection: Age
But only art and music have the power to bring peace.Collection: Peace
Distance doesn't exist, in fact, and neither does time. Vibrations from love or music can be felt everywhere, at all times.Collection: Music
The regret of my life is that I have not said 'I love you' often enough.Collection: Love
I must say that I always thought I had a voice, even when I was 4 years old.
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.
I think there is a big difference between the music business and music. And my relationship is to music, not music business. I think the business will keep changing, but music won't. Music will be there.
My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.
Some people think that movements, such as the movements in ballet, are a higher cultural expression, whereas some are just dirt. I think it is elitist to think that a trained movement is more acceptable than untrained and possibly unrehearsed movements.
Words are power. And a book is full of words. Be careful what power you get from it. But know that you do.
I am extremely rebellious. I have this strong, defiant spirit.