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
art creating music
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.
creating giving people
I want to incite people to loosen their oppression by giving them something to work with, to build on. They shouldn't be frightened of creating themselves - that's why I make things very open, with things for people to do.
art creating hey
There is an incredible love in creating art unless somebody is saying, 'Hey, let's just make money,' because it doesn't work when you do it that way. If you are aiming for that, forget it.
communication bridges creating
I have the outsider's vision, which is creating wisdom I can share with the world. The fact that I am misunderstood has always given me an added impetus to work on communication to bridge the gap.
country creating genre-is
Getting into creating in a new genre is like arriving to a new country.
shows visionary
This shows the timelessness of John's prophetic, visionary songwriting.
future head might time
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.
happy john means week
This week has been hard. Depressing. Now I'm smiling. I'm here. I see all your faces. John would have been so happy that you acknowledged his achievements. This means so much to us. It would have made him happy that you acknowledged our partnership.
battle
(When) I read about the battle of the widows, I thought 'I'm not John's widow, Yoko is John's widow,
limit
I don't have a goal. I don't limit myself to a goal.
music time
I don't have time to listen to anybody's music. I'm making it, you know.
changed conversation decent face history musical towards woman
I'd like to know how I feel towards her now. I'd really like to have a decent conversation to get to know this woman who has changed the face of musical history in many ways.
believe
I don't believe in a chronological way of doing things.
american-artist mothers supposed
Mothers are not supposed to give guidance, right' Sean's doing his own thing.