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There is an incredible love in creating art unless somebody is saying, 'Hey, let's just make money,' because it doesn't work when you do it that way. If you are aiming for that, forget it.

Yoko Ono

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Yoko Ono
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: February 18
Artist
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City of Tokyo
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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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Music is like my security blanket. The first medium that I learned was music.
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If your judgement is clouded, you must be carrying too many things which are being a burden to you.
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We need to really do something about the world. Otherwise, we're all going to blow up together.
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John would have been the first white rapper. And also he would have cherished the Internet.
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I'm not the kind of woman who would love to make soup or knit sweaters. I never cherished that so much.
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My husband John Lennon was a very special man. A man of humble origin, he brought light and hope to the whole world with his words and music.
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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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All I’m saying is that perhaps we can make a revolution without violence.
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I get very sad when I think about Vietnam where there seems to be no choice but violence. This violence goes on for centuries perpetuating itself.
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Women are put in a position of feeling embarrassed about their bodies. It's so ridiculous, but also astounding - we have to always be apologetic about having created the human race.
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I am aware of the sufferings of women in India, which is also the suffering of women in many, many countries on our planet. My heart is filled with empathy and love for them.
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We are all dreamers creating the next world, the next beautiful world for ourselves and for our children.
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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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I saw sorrow turning into clarity.
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Touch, touch, touch, touch me love, I'm shaking inside.
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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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Tape the sound of friends laughing together. Save it for a rainy day.
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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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Look at yourself in the mirror and don't be afraid to notice how beautiful you are.
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