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Art is like breathing for me. If I don't do it, I start to choke.
Yoko Ono
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Yoko Ono
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: February 18
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City of Tokyo
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Power is power. It's energy. And if you get big, big energy, you can use that in a good way.
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My work was not embraced for many decades. I would have killed myself if getting embraced affected me so much.
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People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?
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I think that there is incredible prejudice about witches while there is no prejudice about wizards. Words are very important, and I'm really into destroying myths.
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In a way the new music showed things could be transformed by new channels of communication.
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Imagine a dolphin dancing in the sky. Let it dance with joy. Think of yourself at the bottom of the ocean watching.
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The nice thing about the gallery shows is that without having to pay any money you can just go and see it.
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Women have become stronger, and there's a backlash. Men have become terribly possessive. I find it much easier to get on with women.
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I don't think you make a choice to be an artist. There was no decision for me. I've been expressing myself this way since I can remember.
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I really feel that artists or musicians are controversial people. Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity. If people are not doing that, they're not artists - they're artisans.
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What all of us artists are doing is using our pain as material to create our work.
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I have only one life, so I want to make sure it's a good one.
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Beatles was 20th-century folksong in the framework of capitalism they couldn't do anything different if they wanted to communicate within that framework.
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Keep going until your efforts start to make things better in your hometown.
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Remember, each one of us has the power to change the world. Just start thinking peace, and the message will spread quicker than you think.
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Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you'll start to see a big difference in your life.
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The amazing thing is that we could live in the world together peacefully, feed the world, shelter the world. We have that capability both spiritually and technologically.
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I have been known as the minimal and conceptual artist for over five decades. I think I haven't changed much.
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Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence.
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