Yoko Ono Quotes

The Thing Is, Even After The Revolution, If People Don't Have Any Trust In Themselves, They'll Get New Problems.

Some People Don't Listen To My Music Because They Say That I Am An Artist. And Some Don't Want To Go To My Gallery Shows, Because They Say I Am A Musician.

When You Go On A Stage, Before You Go On A Stage You're Really Scared And You're Really Frightened. You Don't Know What To Do. "why Did I Say Yes To This?" But Once You're On The Stage You Think, "okay."

We Mustn't Be Traditional In The Way We Communicate With People - Especially With The Establishment. We Should Surprise People By Saying New Things In An Entirely New Way. Communication Of That Sort Can Have A Fantastic Power So Long As You Don't Do Only What They Expect You To Do.

There's Nothing Bad About Feminism. We Have To Help Each Other, Because There's A Lot Of Women In The World Who Are Suffering Because The Fact Is We're Not Equal. It's As Plain As That. It's Still A Men's World. I Don't Know. We'll Go On With It.

I Think I'm An Observer In A Way. And My Life Was Not So - Well, My Life Was Bad Too - But It's Just That I Had The Sense To Cope With It. But It's Probably Not That Easy To Cope If You're In A Society Where You Get Killed When Your Husband Dies.

We Created A Thing Called Culture And Civilization, And Now We're About To Lose It Because We're Trying To Destroy Everything. And I Kind Of Miss It. I Miss Culture And Civilization.

I Started To Notice That Simpleness Is Divine. I Think We All Start Trying To Use Very Complex Harmonies And Rhythms And All That Because Of A Certain Kind Of Ambition. But I Was Always Trying To Create Something Simple.

I Am The Type Of Person Who Would Do Something Thoroughly If Someone Said, "i Don't Think You Can Do It." I Am Extremely Rebellious. I Have This Strong, Defiant Spirit.

All I’m Saying Is That Perhaps We Can Make A Revolution Without Violence.

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.

You Can't Love Someone Unless You Are In An Equal Position With Them. A Lot Of Women Have To Cling To Men Out Of Fear Or Insecurity, And That's Not Love - Basically That's Why Women Hate Men.