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Women are very intelligent and not appreciated. We try to pretend that we are not clever, and it's such a pity that we can't show how clever we are.

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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Sometimes I am happy and sometimes not. I am, after all, a human being, you know. And I am glad that we are sometimes happy and sometimes not. You get your wisdom working by having different emotions.
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Indie music is 'it' now. It's kind of a revolution to the music: 1980s, 1990s music was getting very sanitized they were complying with the music industry. Music was getting more and more dead in a way. Now, because of the social climate that's very severe, the artists are compelled to start being real. It's really great that indie music is now.
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Smile to the future and it will smile back to you
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People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication.
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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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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 people place limitations on each other and on ourselves. There is a great fear of expressing ourselves, of making creativity happen.
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Watch the sun until it comes into your body and stays as a tiny sun. It will keep your face shining even in the coldest of winter.
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I'm not giving any guidance, OK. I mean, you know, mothers are not supposed to give guidance, right? Anyway, so he's [Sean] doing his own thing.
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We're growing up together, the human race. And we've discovered a lot of things that we didn't know. We're finding our way. Instead of thinking about doomsday all the time, think about how beautiful the world is. We're all together, and together we're getting wiser.
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When I was 4 years old my mother put me into an early music education school. That's where they taught you perfect pitch and harmony and how to write music and all that. At that time, one of the homeworks was to listen to all the sounds and the noise of a day and transfer that into musical notes.
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Hide until everybody goes home. Hide until everybody forgets about you. Hide until everybody dies.
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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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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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Energy is so important. If you don't have it, don't bother with rock and roll.
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Music is like my security blanket. The first medium that I learned was music.
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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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If you go back to all my albums, they're all confessional.
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We get shy about saying things like I love you. Life is so short. It's crazy, that we hesitate to express our true thoughts to each other.
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I am extremely rebellious. I have this strong, defiant spirit.
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