Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yoko Ono

What we do really affects the world. Most of us think we can't do anything, but it really isn't true.

Yoko Ono

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.

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

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

Yoko Ono

The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves.

Yoko Ono

Artists and musicians of the Sixties were definitely into clothes.

Yoko Ono

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

Yoko Ono

Many incredible artists die before they were famous.

Yoko Ono

Life with another person is always difficult.

Yoko Ono

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

At least I had that, one guy understood me.

Yoko Ono

I don't particularly consider myself just an artist. I'm a woman - I'm a human being.

Yoko Ono

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

Yoko Ono

People don't remember each tree in a park but all of us benefit from the trees. And in a way, artists are like trees in a park.

Yann Martel

Artists invent things as a way of telling the truth.

Wyclef Jean

There's not a hip-hop artist that didn't snatch of piece of Bob Marley. It's totally impossible.

Wyndham Lewis

An artist should be as impartial as God.

Yelawolf

You can usually tell when people aren't being authentic, but that goes for every artist, not just white artists.

Yelawolf

Everybody needs a release. Sometimes people mosh at my shows. That inspired me to make records to get the people more crunk. People need a release and I enjoy being an artist that can do that for people.

Zoe Lister-Jones

As artists, it's really important to take time to see what

Zoe Saldana

As an artist, I like working with filmmakers that have the balls to kind of imagine the unimaginable. Those are kind of the radicals that I identify with.

Zedd

I'm my own artist, and I see artists as movies. No one should try to change them for anything. If you don't like it, you just don't follow it. And if you don't like a movie you don't watch it. Watch another movie.

Zadie Smith

Any artist who aligns themselves with a politician is making a category error because what politicians do is not on a human scale, it is on a geopolitical scale.