Yoko Ono People Quotations

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.

DJs are in incredible competition, musically. And they are the most musically creative and sensitive people in all the music charts. I am amazed how they are.

If you have too many quotes from other people in your head, you can't create. You have to keep your head empty. That's why I am constantly enjoying the sky, the park, the walk.

Our public officials have forgotten that they are ultimately accountable to the people who put them in office, that the information they keep in secrecy belongs to all of us.

When people ask me what the most important thing is in life, I answer: 'Just breathe.'

I think energy is the most important thing that we can give to people as performers. Anything else is a little bit pretentious. But energy is not.

I admire all people who are trying to be a good power in this chaotic world.

Events are the best teacher for us. You try to learn from people, there is always some bend to it.

People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication.

To have a relationship that is pure and passionate and beautiful - I think people are scared of having that now. Especially guys.

People don't remember each tree in a park but all of us benefit from the trees. And in a way, artists are like trees in a park.

When I speak out against the guns or against the big corporations, some of my friends say, 'Oh Yoko, be careful. These people have all the power.' But, you know, most people don't speak out because they are frightened.

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

Some people think that movements, such as the movements in ballet, are a higher cultural expression, whereas some are just dirt. I think it is elitist to think that a trained movement is more acceptable than untrained and possibly unrehearsed movements.

Many people do remember their births, but they deny it.

Most people like to hear sounds they are used to.

I think it's nice to let people know that there is an invisible part of the world. I think there are many people now who are interested in the invisible world.

When I'm putting some communication out on Twitter or Facebook or Instagram, I think that it's helping me, my brain, you know, because it's always somehow stimulated by people who are sending things to me. And it works both ways. It's great. My brain is very happy about it.

So many people have approached me and said, 'Can I do a musical of John,' ... It's a very simple idea, you know - wow, a musical of John! But I've said no. This time, I said yes, because I liked the idea of having these different actors playing John. Because in the years after John's passing, John has transformed into something else. People in Asia think of him as their hero. People in Africa think of him as their hero. He was a hero for the whole world, and not just a white hero. So it's great to have a black performer singing as John. For me, this play is a revolution, a quiet revolution.

People always portrayed us as enemies, like two boxers on opposite sides of the ring, but of course it was never really like that,

At this time I think it's important that we remember John for what he contributed to the world. For people who still love John's music and for those now getting into John's music, this opens up a whole new world in which they can appreciate John's music again.

I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.

I believe in people so much that if the whole of civilization is burned so we don't have any memory of it, even then people will start to build their own art. It is a necessity -- a function. We don't need history.

Peace is here now. It's just that we don't recognize it. Let's say that 98 percent of people in the world are wanting peace. Now people say, even people from Siberia? Yes. We want world peace. The two percent is really tying to mess it up. It's so sad in a way, because by messing it up what are they going to get? Their children are going to suffer, their grandchildren are going to suffer, and they might even die before something gets good.

Some people are saying there's going to be a third World War. I hope not. I really think this is a time that people can start to mend things by negotiations, dealings. We know about dealings, don't we? We have brilliant lawyers. Why don't we have brilliant lawyers standing up and working for peace?

People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?

Some people get medals and awards and all that, and maybe not intentionally - maybe the world is making them do it - but they sort of just follow what they were doing. Repeat or follow what they were doing all their lives, in their style of music or whatever. In my case, I always try to start from scratch. It's very nerve-wracking actually, but it's interesting.

I'm very thankful that I can make people happy just by signing my name.

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.

The Establishment likes people who take no responsibility and cannot respect themselves.

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.

We are very lucky really, because we can create our own reality, John [Lennon] and me, but we know the important thing is to communicate with other people.

When people don't understand my work, I don't feel like explaining.

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.

We artists have the dignity to tell the truth to the people, unlike politicians.

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.

Bad stories are written about me because the press knows they can make me into a weeping dog and few people will object.

People just love to be entertained, and in order to entertain them, you have to do things in a way that they understand.

We don't read people's wishes. The wishes are suppose to be direct communication to the Universe. Your interception will weaken the power of the wish.

When people get cynical about love, they should look at us [Yoko and John Lennon] and see it is possible

People say that this new generation is so used to the Internet that their heads are already different. They can't read a book from beginning to end. That is not a tragedy. The book changes form.

In the '60s, people were still very protective of each field that they belonged to. Avant-garde artists didn't know about rock or pop or jazz. And the jazz people of course didn't want to know about any other music. They were all just kind of protecting their territory.

I think people place limitations on each other and on ourselves. There is a great fear of expressing ourselves, of making creativity happen.

People are still thinking of solving problems by violence and war, and that has to stop.

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.

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.

When you are suffering, you become more understanding about yourself, but also about other people's sufferings too. That's the first step to understand somebody is to understand their sufferings. So then love follows.

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.

Over 1,057,000 people have been killed by guns in the USA since John Lennon was shot and killed on 8 Dec 1980,

The thing is, even after the revolution, if people don't have any trust in themselves, they'll get new problems.

Some people say, "Sometimes I have violent thoughts, what can I do?" So I say, "Well, have them!" Cos we should not try to control ourselves. It's very bad to control ourselves in this sense. If you have any emotion at all, if its a bad emotion or good emotion, think about it, you should just understand that you have those emotions. And it's good because we are people and we have all these emotions. And the result of that is you would become more and more peaceful. If you don't let those emotions be inside of you then you become extremely violent.

Be silent in a group of people See what they reveal to you.

The people have got to trust in themselves.

Some people are old at 18 and some are young at 90. Time is a concept that humans created.