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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.

Yoko Ono

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Yoko Ono
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: February 18
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Women artists are still treated differently from men.
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I think that there is incredible prejudice about witches while there is no prejudice about wizards. Words are very important, and I'm really into destroying myths.
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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.
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The male society is letting the men think of the women as something pretty and soft and that kind of thing. So I just wanted to show what we were. Women are the ones who actually created the human race. I mean without us bringing up the new generation, there wouldn't be a human race.
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If people want to make war they should make a color war, and paint each others’ cities up in the night in pinks and greens.
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People think that their world will get smaller as they get older. My experience is just the opposite. Your senses become more acute. You start to blossom.
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I'm not going to doubt my life.
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Think of the Earth as a turning point in eternity. Think of the Earth as a meeting point in infinity.
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I often wish my mother had died so that at least I could get some people's sympathy. But there she was, a perfectly beautiful mother.
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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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It's better that you're criticized than complimented as a person.
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I just want to be healthy and stay alive and keep my family going and everything and keep my friends going and try to do something so that this world will be peaceful. That is the most ambitious and the most difficult thing, but I'm there trying to do it.
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Music is something that even when you close your eyes it gets into your body.
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I think of John every day. I do try to block it, but December 8th is not the only day I think of him.
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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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I see so many activists... who are artists because they feel that they have the power of communication.
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We mustn't be traditional in the way we communicate with people - especially with the Establishment. We should surprise people by saying new things in an entirely new way. Communication of that sort can have a fantastic power so long as you don't do only what they expect you to do.
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The cynicism that you have is not your real soul.
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I thought art was a verb, rather than a noun.
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Every moment in our lives is a miracle we should enjoy instead of ignoring.
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