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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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If you go back to all my albums, they're all confessional.
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Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited. 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.
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The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves.
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I trust in my inspiration, really, and that's difficult because sometimes you would rather be technical. And once you empty your mind, empty your brain, it's really incredible. I'm very caring about things that dash into my brain, and I make sure I don't just clog it.
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This society is driven by neurotic speed and force accelerated by greed and frustration of not being able to live up to the image of men and woman we have created for ourselves the image has nothing to do with the reality of people.
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A lot of things have been thrown at me in life, and I've got through it all without a rule book, taking it one day at a time.
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I often wish my mother had died so that at least I could get some people's sympathy. But there she was, a perfectly beautiful mother.
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Dancing is a very healthy thing to do for our body.
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I have to be pretty inclusive. I have to be pretty much inside of me rather than going out and finding out what people are doing. I don't have the time to. I just listen to my mind, in a way.
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