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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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Yoko Ono
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: February 18
Artist
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Peace Activist
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City of Tokyo
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Japanese are very proud and workaholics. Proud workaholics.
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There's many women now who think, 'Surely we don't need feminism anymore, we're all liberated and society's accepting us as we are'. Which is just hogwash. It's not true at all.
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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 never wanted to be a professional artist I think that's limiting.
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Artists are going to be the metronome of this society.
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I feel sad that he's just a voice now.
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Not being appreciated for 40 years or something ... It feels like I was accused of something that I didn't do, which was breaking up the Beatles. That was like being somebody who is in prison without having done anything wrong.
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I relate to happiness as an ecstatic moment - something you don't create, you encounter.
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When you burn the chair, you suddenly realize that the chair in your mind did not burn or disappear
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Be kind to yourself this evening. Buy something for yourself. Treat yourself to a meal. Look in the mirror and give yourself a smile
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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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And the more you are active about something you love, the world is going to be a better place.
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There's a long life ahead of you and it's going to be beautiful, as long as you keep loving and hugging each other.
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