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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
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Peace Activist
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Recording Artist
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City of Tokyo
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Society tells you that when you're old you have to retire. You have to defy that.
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When you say 'I love you', you are not just saying it to that person. You are saying 'I love you' to yourself, the planet & The Universe.
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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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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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We're all water from different rivers, That's why it's so easy to meet, We're all water in this vast, vast ocean, Someday we'll evaporate together.
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Be silent in a group of people See what they reveal to you.
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Everyone is an artist and a genius, I think. If we don't choose to limit ourselves then we are totally accomplished.
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All women are feminists. Being a feminist is allowing woman to be natural, for what she is, whatever it is. All of us can be natural and we're all feminists in that sense.
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IMAGINE PEACE: Think PEACE, Act PEACE, Spread # PEACE .
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Bless you for your jealousy it is a sign of empathy.
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I have only one life, so I want to make sure it's a good one.
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Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
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Real success is doing things right every day by not forgetting to express love to your friends.
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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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I really feel that artists or musicians are controversial people. Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity. If people are not doing that, they're not artists - they're artisans.
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I see so many activists... who are artists because they feel that they have the power of communication.
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The people have got to trust in themselves.
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But only art and music have the power to bring peace.
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