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I always thought that I was an important musician. If you don't have that confidence, why would you go on and do it?
Yoko Ono
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Yoko Ono
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: February 18
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Peace Activist
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City of Tokyo
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Everything has complexity. Everything has simplicity. You just grab it.
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Some people are old at 18 and some are young at 90. Time is a concept that humans created.
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Life keeps getting better. If anything, you start to carry a certain pride in having survived all those years.
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Tape the sound of the moon fading at dawn. Give it to your mother to listen to when she's in sorrow.
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Remember love. Remember our hearts are one. Even when we are fighting with each other, our hearts are beating in unison. I love you.
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But only art and music have the power to bring peace.
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I think something that's very important for us to communicate is usually very simple. Like breathing: Breathing is very simple. You don't do a dissonant 9th harmony or something in breathing. You just breathe, you know. I think that's how it is with very important messages.
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Getting into creating in a new genre is like arriving to a new country.
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Artists are going to be the metronome of this society.
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Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity.
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Being alone is very difficult.
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I never wanted to be a professional artist I think that's limiting.
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Art for me is like breathing. When I stop breathing, what happens?
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Kill all the men you have slept with. Put the bones in a box and send it into the sea with flowers.
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If people want to make war they should make a color war, and paint each others’ cities up in the night in pinks and greens.
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I am the type of person who would do something thoroughly if someone said, I don't think you can do it. I am extremely rebellious. I have this strong, defiant spirit.
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We need to really do something about the world. Otherwise, we're all going to blow up together.
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