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I don't think you make a choice to be an artist. There was no decision for me. I've been expressing myself this way since I can remember.

Yoko Ono

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Yoko Ono
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: February 18
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All my life, I have been in love with the sky. Even when everything was falling apart around me, the sky was always there for me.
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We created a thing called culture and civilization, and now we're about to lose it because we're trying to destroy everything. And I kind of miss it. I miss culture and civilization.
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I think there is a big difference between the music business and music. And my relationship is to music, not music business. I think the business will keep changing, but music won't. Music will be there.
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No one person could have broken up a band, especially one the size of the Beatles.
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When I was 4 years old my mother put me into an early music education school. That's where they taught you perfect pitch and harmony and how to write music and all that. At that time, one of the homeworks was to listen to all the sounds and the noise of a day and transfer that into musical notes.
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I thought art was a verb, rather than a noun.
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Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.
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Smile to the future and it will smile back to you
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You have to release your emotion in order to keep your sanity.
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See what you can do. See what you want to do. See what you will do about it. Find your way out.
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We get shy about saying things like I love you. Life is so short. It's crazy, that we hesitate to express our true thoughts to each other.
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Most people think that I am too optimistic, but my optimism is based on the thought that negative thinking is a luxury that we can't afford.
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Performance art is going to be the future. Plays on Broadway are so restricted. But performance art is like haikus, just one line thing. And it's more casual but more interesting.
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Keep going until your efforts start to make things better in your hometown.
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I don't really believe in going with somebody to have tea and chat. I don't do that. It's just a waste of time.
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You can't always be in awe of someone's talent, living with them.
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Faces can lie. Backsides can't.
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It is sad that the air is the only thing we share. No matter how close we get to each other, there is always air between us.
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