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I did not break up the Beatles. You can't have it both ways. If you're going to blame me for breaking the Beatles up, you should be thankful that I made them into myth rather than a crumbling group.

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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Think of the Earth as a turning point in eternity. Think of the Earth as a meeting point in infinity.
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Music is something that even when you close your eyes it gets into your body.
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The odds of not meeting in this life are so great that every meeting is like a miracle. It's a wonder that we don't make love to every single person we meet.
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People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?
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I don't think you make a choice to be an artist. There was no decision for me. I've been expressing myself this way since I can remember.
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I never thought I would go into the dance charts.
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When you go on a stage, before you go on a stage you're really scared and you're really frightened. You don't know what to do. Why did I say yes to this? But once you're on the stage you think, Okay.
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Healing yourself is connected with healing others.
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The nice thing about the gallery shows is that without having to pay any money you can just go and see it.
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When people don't understand my work, I don't feel like explaining.
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To have world peace, we all have to have a healthy understanding of what is necessary to bring World Peace. It's not something that will be dropped on our laps. We have to work for it. Until we get World Peace, I think my strongest passion stays in the effort to get it.
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I don't particularly consider myself just an artist. I'm a woman - I'm a human being.
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Give peace a chance and let's hope that one day we will all live in peace.
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Tape the sound of friends laughing together. Save it for a rainy day.
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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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Getting into creating in a new genre is like arriving to a new country.
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My work was not embraced for many decades. I would have killed myself if getting embraced affected me so much.
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Every time I create something, just before that there's a kind of - you're feeling very low, you're feeling very down and insecure. Then you create and then it's fine. This is the way I observe me doing it.
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