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Words are power. And a book is full of words. Be careful what power you get from it. But know that you do.

Yoko Ono

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Yoko Ono
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: February 18
Artist
Composer
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Film Director
Musician
Painter
Peace Activist
Performance Artist
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Recording Artist
Sculptor
City of Tokyo
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Performance art is going to be the future. Plays on Broadway are so restricted. But performance art is like haikus, just one line thing. And it's more casual but more interesting.
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Love is an incredibly strong thing, it goes everywhere, it's like water, you can't stop it. Love, once you have it, once you create a kind of pathway for it to come out, it just keeps on coming out.
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I always believed that my work should be unfinished in the sense that I encourage people to add their creativity to it, either conceptually or physically. Back in the 1960s, I was calling for 'Unfinished Music,' number one, and number two, with my artwork - I was taking unfinished work into the gallery. And that's how I was looking at it.
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When people don't understand my work, I don't feel like explaining.
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You can be very wild and still be very wise
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You change the world by being yourself.
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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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You may think I’m small, but I have a universe inside my mind.
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Music is like my security blanket.
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I think if you give in and accept society's stereotypes, then you start thinking, 'I cannot dance till late at night because I'm 70.'
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Every drop in the ocean counts.
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If someone is unpleasant to you, draw a halo around his or her head in your mind. He/she is an angel who came to teach you something.
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Luckily we never injected because both of us were totally scared about needles. So that probably saved us. And the other thing that saved us was our connection was not very good.
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If you go back to all my albums, they're all confessional.
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When people get cynical about love, they should look at us [Yoko and John Lennon] and see it is possible
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When I hear music, my body just starts to move. It has nothing to do with training or anything. That's just me. That's just my body. And I was like that as a child, too.
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But only art and music have the power to bring peace.
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