Ono Quotes & Sayings

Though we knew each other without overlapping our clothes, still, with this autumn wind's sound, I find myself waiting for you. — Ono No Komachi

My father was a banker, but he was an independent spirit. He was a very good pianist and very much into music. — Yoko Ono

Please know that being 80 is not a scary thing. When you're 80, your life is much freer. — Yoko Ono

I'm very thankful that I can make people happy just by signing my name. — Yoko Ono

I just go with the flow, so any style can be in my music - that makes it exciting. — Yoko Ono

Be kind to yourself this evening. Buy something for yourself. Treat yourself to a meal. Look in the mirror and give yourself a smile — Yoko Ono

Dancing is a very healthy thing to do for our body. — Yoko Ono

The Ono-Sendai; next year's most expensive Hosaka computer; a Sony monitor; a dozen disks of corporate-grade ice; a Braun coffeemaker. — William Gibson

All I can say is, it's not very easy for a woman to be associated with The Beatles. — Yoko Ono

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. — Yoko Ono

Think that snow is falling
Think that snow is falling everywhere
all the time
When you talk with a person, think
that snow is falling between you and
on that person
Stop conversing when you think the
person is covered by snow — Yoko Ono

The cynicism that you have is not your real soul. — Yoko Ono

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

All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds! — Yoko Ono

There are some things in this world you can never get back ... There's no reclaiming that piece of the past. Don't you think it'd be better to abandon it completely and consider instead what you did wrong and learn from it? — Fuyumi Ono

My beauty secret is ... nothing! I don't drink too much water. I don't eat very well. Sometimes I cheat and grab some chocolate. The best thing is to eat what you want, but not very much. — Yoko Ono

A dream you dream alone may be a dream, but a dream two people dream together is a reality. — Yoko Ono

Indie music is 'it' now. It's kind of a revolution to the music: 1980s, 1990s music was getting very sanitized; they were complying with the music industry. Music was getting more and more dead in a way. Now, because of the social climate that's very severe, the artists are compelled to start being real. It's really great that indie music is now. — Yoko Ono

To have world peace, we all have to have a healthy understanding of what is necessary to bring World Peace. It's not something that will be dropped on our laps. We have to work for it. Until we get World Peace, I think my strongest passion stays in the effort to get it. — Yoko Ono

You know, something happened to me when I became 70. I started to feel a tremendous love for the human race, and life and this planet, the universe, the whole shebang. — Yoko Ono

Women artists are still treated differently from men. — Yoko Ono

There was never any question about it: we [with Yoko Ono] had to have a 50-50 relationship or there was no relationship, I was quick to learn. — John Lennon

When Yoko [Ono] and I got married, we got terrible racialist letters - you know, warning me that she would slit my throat. Those mainly came from Army people living in Aldershot. Officers. — John Lennon

The nice thing about the gallery shows is that without having to pay any money you can just go and see it. — Yoko Ono

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. — Yoko Ono

When I brought 'El Topo' to New York, no one understood the picture. But John Lennon understood. John and Yoko Ono, they presented 'El Topo' in the United States; they introduced it. — Alejandro Jodorowsky

It is sad that the air is the only thing we share. No matter how close we get to each other, there is always air between us. — Yoko Ono

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

Sometimes I have compared myself with a scientist or something: when you discover something and you don't expect the whole world to understand it. I always thought I was doing that kind of activity, in art and in music too. — Yoko Ono

No one person could have broken up a band, especially one the size of the Beatles. — Yoko Ono

I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it — Yoko Ono

I don't think you should always stay calm in a tense situation, because you might not ever confront the problem. Maybe it's better to actually let yourself be tense - and find a solution. — Yoko Ono

Everyone is an artist and a genius, I think. If we don't choose to limit ourselves then we are totally accomplished. — Yoko Ono

Tape the sound of the moon fading at dawn. Give it to your mother to listen to when she's in sorrow. — Yoko Ono

We artists have the dignity to tell the truth to the people, unlike politicians. — Yoko Ono

You are water
I'm water
we're all water in different containers
that's why it's so easy to meet
someday we'll evaporate together. — Yoko Ono

Power is power. It's energy. And if you get big, big energy, you can use that in a good way. — Yoko Ono

They'd retreated to the country with two passports only. From the outside it looked like death. People could pound the walls all they wanted, but they'd never find the door. Nobody could guess at the gardens inside. — Janet Fitch

I'd rather be in danger with you than be safe without you. — Fuyumi Ono

I long for him most
during these hot moonless nights.
I lie awake, hot,
the growing fires of passion
bursting, blazing in my heart. — Ono No Komachi

Unclog your mind. Unclog your room. Arrange your room in a way you wish your mind would be. — Yoko Ono

I like artists who have something to say, not wallpaper. — Yoko Ono

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

Every drop in the ocean counts. — Yoko Ono

Fracking kills, and it doesn't just kill us. It kills the land, nature and, eventually, the whole world. — Yoko Ono

Prince Nicochinski, if we eat a delicious food, our heart will be warm and can make us smile.. — Ono Eriko

Music is like my security blanket. — Yoko Ono

Fracking is an incredible risk to the human race, I don't know why they even thought of doing it. — Yoko Ono

Women are put in a position of feeling embarrassed about their bodies. It's so ridiculous, but also astounding - we have to always be apologetic about having created the human race. — Yoko Ono

Life keeps getting better. If anything, you start to carry a certain pride in having survived all those years. — Yoko Ono

My career? I never think of it as a 'career.' Art and music and all those things that I'm creating are just part of me. — Yoko Ono

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

Hide until everybody goes home. Hide until everybody forgets about you. Hide until everybody dies. — Yoko Ono

Transform jealousy to admiration, and what you admire will become part of your life. — Yoko Ono

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

The universe, when you leave it alone, is going to be beautiful. — Yoko Ono

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

The only way you can better John is by copying him exactly. — Yoko Ono

If everybody thinks of something, then it will happen. Your mind is part of the universe. It is connected, you can use its energy. — Yoko Ono

Art is a way of survival. — Yoko Ono

I must say that I always thought I had a voice, even when I was 4 years old. — Yoko Ono

You can't always measure the effects of activist work; you just have to wish and pray that the message gets through. — Yoko Ono

I feel sad that he's just a voice now. — Yoko Ono

The weight of words.
Words can be fearsome weapons, tools or means powerful! — Joko Ono

Bless you for your jealousy; it is a sign of empathy. — Yoko Ono

In a way the new music showed things could be transformed by new channels of communication. — Yoko Ono

I still don't know how to express the really delicate personal stuff. People think that Plastic Ono is very personal, but there are some subtleties of emotions which I cannot seem to express in pop music, and it frustrates me. Maybe that's why I still search for other ways of expressing myself. Song writing is a limiting experience in some ways - writing down words that have to rhyme. — John Lennon

Most people like to hear sounds they are used to. — Yoko Ono

All my life, I have been in love with the sky. Even when everything was falling apart around me, the sky was always there for me. — Yoko Ono

I love to work. Doing things we love is how we relax, I think. — Yoko Ono

It's a waste to not say anything with art. — Yoko Ono

Try to say nothing negative about anybody.
a) for three days
b) for forty-five days
c) for three months
See what happens to your life. — Yoko Ono

The opposite of love is fear, not hate. — Yoko Ono

The work of the poet has always been to shine a bright light on the absurdities of society, challenging hypocrisy and greed, and presenting the tools of change. (Donovan) — Yoko Ono

I never want projects to be finished; I have always believed in unfinished work. I got that from Schubert, you know, the 'Unfinished Symphony.' — Yoko Ono

Keep going until your efforts start to make things better in your hometown. — Yoko Ono

Many people do remember their births, but they deny it. — Yoko Ono

Society tells you that when you're old you have to retire. You have to defy that. — Yoko Ono

The problem with Double Fantasy was the arrangement whereby they alternated John Lennon tracks with Yoko Ono tracks. You couldn't escape Yoko for more than four minutes at a time. — Adrian McKinty

I think that once you're born, the thing you have to do is find out who you are and live that life as well as you can. You can't spend your time wondering how things would have been if you were someone different. — Fuyumi Ono

Art is like breathing for me. If I don't do it, I start to choke. — Yoko Ono

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. — Yoko Ono

Think of the Earth as a turning point in eternity. Think of the Earth as a meeting point in infinity. — Yoko Ono

I relate to happiness as an ecstatic moment - something you don't create, you encounter. — Yoko Ono

People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication. — Yoko Ono

You can be very wild and still be very wise. — Yoko Ono

I don't have time to listen to anybody's music. I'm making it, you know. — Yoko Ono

Creativity is innate and it manifests itself in so many forms. It needs to come out somehow or it destroys you in some way. — Yoko Ono

Imagine the clouds dripping Dig a hole in your garden to put them in — Yoko Ono

Mothers are not supposed to give guidance. — Yoko Ono

Rather than deal with problems in relationships, I've always moved on. That's why I'm one of the very few survivors as a woman, you know. — Yoko Ono

If you go back to all my albums, they're all confessional. — Yoko Ono

I should think that people would be more interested in politics and all that is happening, rather than two lovebirds who are looking to wed. I think it's very nice that in an age when love is so scarce that people are willing to gamble on getting married. — Yoko Ono

The odds of not meeting in this life are so great that every meeting is like a miracle. It's a wonder that we don't make love to every single person we meet. — Yoko Ono

Is this love reality
Or a dream?
I cannot know,
When both reality and dreams
Exist without truly existing. — Ono No Komachi

It took me quite a long time to realise that my maleness was cutting off certain areas for Yoko [Ono]. She's a red hot liberationistand was quick to show me where I was going wrong, even though it seemed to me that I was just acting naturally. That's why I'm always interested to know how people who claim to be radical treat women. — John Lennon

What a beautiful future it will be! Don't worry about life being boring. It will never be. — Yoko Ono

We're all water from different rivers,
That's why it's so easy to meet,
We're all water in this vast, vast ocean,
Someday we'll evaporate together. — Yoko Ono

Perhaps one feels more pain when parents are there. It's like when you're hungry, you know, it's worse to get a symbol of a cheeseburger than no cheeseburger at all. It doesn't do you any good, you know. — Yoko Ono

DAYS THAT I'LL REMEMBER is a lovingly assembled and beautifully written collection of conversations, observations, and memories of music, friendship, and days gone by. It's good to be back again with John Lennon, his beloved Yoko Ono, and his trusted chronicler and friend Jonathan Cott. — Martin Scorsese