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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.

Yoko Ono

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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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Confusion has become a state of mind, more of less we're trained to be confused. Quite simply, the people in power are keeping us down, keeping us docile and keeping us consuming with this confusion. It's a cultural confusion and it is deliberate.
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It's better to dance than to march through life.
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There are things you can never take, no matter how strong you are.
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I'm kind of honored to be a dragon lady. The dragon is a very powerful, mythical animal.
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You may think I’m small, but I have a universe inside my mind.
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Countries have lost their culture because what they wanted was money. Money became the running theme in every country and culture was sacrificed.
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The only way you can better John is by copying him exactly.
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I'm not going to doubt my life.
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The odds of not meeting in this life are so great that every meeting is like a miracle. It's a wonder that we don't make love to every single person we meet.
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Distance doesn't exist, in fact, and neither does time. Vibrations from love or music can be felt everywhere, at all times.
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I have to be pretty inclusive. I have to be pretty much inside of me rather than going out and finding out what people are doing. I don't have the time to. I just listen to my mind, in a way.
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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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Beatles was 20th-century folksong in the framework of capitalism they couldn't do anything different if they wanted to communicate within that framework.
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Each time we don't say what we wanna say, we're dying.
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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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Energy is so important. If you don't have it, don't bother with rock and roll.
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The process is always the same. I get an inspiration for a new song, I put it down on paper immediately so I won't lose it. When I am ready to go to the studio with it, I play it a few times on the piano and edit, add, and type the lyrics and take it to the studio. Sometimes I don't have anything on paper.
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You can't dance if you got too much muck in your head.
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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.
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Tape the sound of the moon fading at dawn. Give it to your mother to listen to when she's in sorrow.
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