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I think energy is the most important thing that we can give to people as performers. Anything else is a little bit pretentious. But energy is not.

Yoko Ono

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Yoko Ono
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: February 18
Artist
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City of Tokyo
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Hide until everybody goes home. Hide until everybody forgets about you. Hide until everybody dies.
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The only instrument I can play is piano. Whenever I make songs at home, I play the piano and make them on the piano.
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Marriage is a difficult project. When seven years have passed and all your body's cells have been replaced, you're meant to experience that seven-year itch.
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We're all water from different rivers, That's why it's so easy to meet, We're all water in this vast, vast ocean, Someday we'll evaporate together.
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I never want projects to be finished I have always believed in unfinished work. I got that from Schubert, you know, the 'Unfinished Symphony.'
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Long, long time ago, I declared that all my works are a form of a prayer/a wish.
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I never thought, I'm going to be an artist. When I actually began to become successful in the art world I made it a point to say, 'I am a dilettante, I am not a professional artist, which is true.
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I realized that an artist seeking to tell the truth in her art takes great courage. I recognize the courage required to bring children together from Israeli and Palestinian communities to find commonality in music as a very powerful and effective beginning towards Peace.
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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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Music is like my security blanket. The first medium that I learned was music.
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Fracking is an incredible risk to the human race, I don't know why they even thought of doing it.
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I am extremely rebellious. I have this strong, defiant spirit.
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People think that their world will get smaller as they get older. My experience is just the opposite. Your senses become more acute. You start to blossom.
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I never wanted to be a professional artist I think that's limiting.
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Give death announcements each time you move instead of giving announcements of the change of address. Send the same when you die.
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The regret of my life is that I have not said 'I love you' often enough.
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I don't really believe in going with somebody to have tea and chat. I don't do that. It's just a waste of time.
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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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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.
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