Yoko Ono
Yoko Ono
Yoko Onois a Japanese multimedia artist, singer, songwriter, and peace activist who is also known for her work in performance art, music, and filmmaking. She is the widow and second wife of singer-songwriter John Lennon...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth18 February 1933
CityTokyo, Japan
CountryUnited States of America
boxers course opposite people portrayed sides
People always portrayed us as enemies, like two boxers on opposite sides of the ring, but of course it was never really like that,
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I don't think about the future. I don't think about the past. I just think of what comes into my head at the time. So that might be about the past, that might be about the future. Or, the present.
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I think John's art, for the most part, represents old-fashioned family traditions. He made a lot of social statements, but there's a lot about the family in his works. Sean was his main inspiration. From the moment he was conceived, John was gloriously happy.
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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.
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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.
You can be lonely when you have a guy living with you.
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I will consider the possibility, that is, when I get the call.
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I said, 'You're a good songwriter. It's not June with Spoon that you write. You're a good singer, and most musicians are probably a little bit nervous about covering your songs,'
good june spoon
I said, 'You're a good songwriter, it's not June with Spoon that you write.
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I believe in people so much that if the whole of civilization is burned so we don't have any memory of it, even then people will start to build their own art. It is a necessity -- a function. We don't need history.
love observing proud sure
If he's observing me from up there, I'm sure he's proud of me. It's going to go on and on. This is what I love now, so it's great.
ifs decades affected
My work was not embraced for many decades. I would have killed myself if getting embraced affected me so much.
art differences information
There's a big difference between sending your art in a statement or something like that, and sending yourself there. When you send yourself somewhere, then you are sharing your information uncontrollably - like all yourself.
art breathing happens
Art for me is like breathing. When I stop breathing, what happens?