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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.

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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The process is always the same. I get an inspiration for a new song, I put it down on paper immediately so I won't lose it. When I am ready to go to the studio with it, I play it a few times on the piano and edit, add, and type the lyrics and take it to the studio. Sometimes I don't have anything on paper.
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I started to notice that simpleness is divine. I think we all start trying to use very complex harmonies and rhythms and all that because of a certain kind of ambition. But I was always trying to create something simple.
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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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Transform jealousy to admiration, and what you admire will become part of your life.
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I think that there is a sort of spiritual power that is translating into our bodies as we perform. Performers give, and giving is so important. It can heal. That is my experience, anyway.
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Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
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My father was a banker, but he was an independent spirit. He was a very good pianist and very much into music.
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My life was pretty rough.
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Kill all the men you have slept with. Put the bones in a box and send it into the sea with flowers.
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