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When I'm inspired, I jot things down and put them in a pile.

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Yoko Ono
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: February 18
Artist
Composer
Conceptual Artist
Film Director
Musician
Painter
Peace Activist
Performance Artist
Photographer
Recording Artist
Sculptor
City of Tokyo
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We’ve been filled with great treasure for one purpose: to be spilled.
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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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Love is an incredibly strong thing, it goes everywhere, it's like water, you can't stop it. Love, once you have it, once you create a kind of pathway for it to come out, it just keeps on coming out.
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If you go back to all my albums, they're all confessional.
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Artists and musicians of the Sixties were definitely into clothes.
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Some people don't listen to my music because they say that I am an artist. And some don't want to go to my gallery shows, because they say I am a musician.
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I think people place limitations on each other and on ourselves. There is a great fear of expressing ourselves, of making creativity happen.
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Art is an effort to make you walk a half an inch above ground.
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Art is my life and my life is art.
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You can't dance if you got too much muck in your head.
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Nobody's life is a bed of roses. We all have crosses to bear and we all just do our best.
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True artists are prophets. I don't want to be that prophetic in that sense because it's so lonely.
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I think something that's very important for us to communicate is usually very simple. Like breathing: Breathing is very simple. You don't do a dissonant 9th harmony or something in breathing. You just breathe, you know. I think that's how it is with very important messages.
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I never thought, I'm going to be an artist. When I actually began to become successful in the art world I made it a point to say, 'I am a dilettante, I am not a professional artist, which is true.
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I'm a politician. Politics is just a convenience for our life and we just have to create a beautiful world together that would be very convenient for us and just enjoyable.
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You can't always be in awe of someone's talent, living with them.
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Art is like breathing for me. If I don't do it, I start to choke.
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People just love to be entertained, and in order to entertain them, you have to do things in a way that they understand.
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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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In your head, a sunset can go on for days
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