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I'm into indie music. I think indie is going to bring back the spirit in music. There was a time when it was all about accommodating the music business, the music was getting tasteless, but the spirit is back.

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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When I was four years old, my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and composition.
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Art is a way of survival.
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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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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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Try to say nothing negative about anybody for three days, for forty-five days, for three months. See what happens to your life.
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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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Great Art is Great because it inspired you greatly. If it didn't, no matter what the critics, the museums and the galleries say, it's not great art for you.
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In the present age when communication is so rapid, we should create a different tradition, traditions are created everyday. Five years now is like 100 years before. We are living in a society that has no history. There’s no precedent for this kind of society so we can break the old patterns.
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I trust in my inspiration, really, and that's difficult because sometimes you would rather be technical. And once you empty your mind, empty your brain, it's really incredible. I'm very caring about things that dash into my brain, and I make sure I don't just clog it.
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Music is like my security blanket.
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I want to incite people to loosen their oppression by giving them something to work with, to build on. They shouldn't be frightened of creating themselves - that's why I make things very open, with things for people to do.
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I'm free from holding personal anger because I can express what I want through my music.
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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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Each time we don't say what we wanna say, we're dying.
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I relate to happiness as an ecstatic moment - something you don't create, you encounter.
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Artists are going to be the metronome of this society.
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Artists are magicians and I definitely think John Lennon was a Wizard.
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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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