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
rock-and-roll rocks important
Energy is so important. If you don't have it, don't bother with rock and roll.
art moving rocks
If I hear dance music, my body starts to move. Whatever the dance music is, I can't help it. With all that, I still felt, well, rock is a little higher art, but it wasn't. Right now, because I have so much experience with dance charts, I started to realize that it's incredible art. This is going to be known one day as high art.
artist rocks people
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.
battle
(When) I read about the battle of the widows, I thought 'I'm not John's widow, Yoko is John's widow,
cover songs
they always cover Paul's songs and never mine.
created travel
I've always said that I use my voice as an instrument. It was something I created myself, and I said, 'Have voice, will travel.'
grand knowing thank
Thank you George, it was grand knowing you.
aid beauty best boon cosmetics man
Cosmetics is a boon to every woman, but a girl's best beauty aid is still a near-sighted man
answer destroy hated health life ruin
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.
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.
You can be lonely when you have a guy living with you.
family john main moment represents sean social
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.
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.
believe
I don't believe in a chronological way of doing things.