Quotes from Yoko Ono

The nice thing about the gallery shows is that without having to pay any money you can just go and see it.

I wonder why men get serious at all. They have this delicate, long thing hanging outside their bodies which goes up and down by its own will. If I were a man I would always be laughing at myself.

John wrote with a very deep love for the human race and a concern for its future.

Is truth always positive? Of course. Once the truth comes out, you know, it's all right. We're scared that if the truth comes out that it's not all right. It's the other way around.

I just go with the flow, so any style can be in my music - that makes it exciting.

Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity.

What the Beatles did was something incredible, it was more than what a band could do. We have to give them respect.

Countries have lost their culture because what they wanted was money. Money became the running theme in every country and culture was sacrificed.

All my concerts had no sounds in them they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!

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.

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.

The only instrument I can play is piano. Whenever I make songs at home, I play the piano and make them on the piano.

I realized that if my thoughts immediately affect my body, I should be careful about what I think. Now if I get angry, I ask myself why I feel that way. If I can find the source of my anger, I can turn that negative energy into something positive.

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.

Each planet has its own orbit agenda. Think of people close to you as planets. Sometimes it's nice to just watch them orbit and shine.

Think that snow is falling Think that snow is falling everywhere all the time When you talk with a person, think that snow is falling between you and on that person Stop conversing when you think the person is covered by snow

Have the courage and strength to be yourself. Because there is no other choice. Do you have a choice of being somebody else?

Whisper your dream to a cloud. Ask the cloud to remember it.

You may think I'm small, but I have a universe in my head.

spring passes and one remembers one's innocence summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance there is a season that never passes and that is the season of glass -- Season of Glass, 1981

Bandage any part of your body If people ask about it, make a story and tell If people do not ask about it, draw their attention to it and tell If people forget about it, remind them of it and keep telling. Do not talk about anything else

water talk you are water I'm water we're all water in different containers that's why it's so easy to meet someday we'll evaporate together. but even after the water's gone we'll probably point out to the containers and say, "that's me there, that one" we're container minders

It's a waste of time to think that if you coloured a painting red what might have happened if you painted it black.

Imagine a dolphin dancing in the sky. Let it dance with joy. Think of yourself at the bottom of the ocean watching.