Top 280 Yoko Ono Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Dancing is a very healthy thing to do for our body.”

— Yoko Ono

102. “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.”

— Yoko Ono

103. “I’m free from holding personal anger because I can express what I want through my music.”

— Yoko Ono

104. “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.”

— Yoko Ono

105. “Life keeps getting better. If anything, you start to carry a certain pride in having survived all those years.”

— Yoko Ono

106. “When you say ‘I love you’, you are not just saying it to that person. You are saying ‘I love you’ to yourself, the planet & The Universe.”

— Yoko Ono

107. “My beauty secret is... nothing! I don’t drink too much water. I don’t eat very well. Sometimes I cheat and grab some chocolate. The best thing is to eat what you want, but not very much.”

— Yoko Ono

108. “One day, the dance charts will be the biggest chart in the music world. Because we all need to dance. This planet will be a fun planet when the judges in court will end the day with a dance!”

— Yoko Ono

109. “I think I’m an observer in a way. And my life was not so – well, my life was bad too – but it’s just that I had the sense to cope with it. But it’s probably not that easy to cope if you’re in a society where you get killed when your husband dies.”

— Yoko Ono

110. “Women are put in a position of feeling embarrassed about their bodies. It’s so ridiculous, but also astounding – we have to always be apologetic about having created the human race.”

— Yoko Ono

111. “Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.”

— Yoko Ono

112. “Losing my daughter was a very serious pain. There was always some empty space in my heart.”

— Yoko Ono

113. “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.”

— Yoko Ono

114. “Keep going until your efforts start to make things better in your hometown.”

— Yoko Ono

115. “The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves.”

— Yoko Ono

116. “Creativity is innate and it manifests itself in so many forms. It needs to come out somehow or it destroys you in some way.”

— Yoko Ono

117. “Tape the sound of the moon fading at dawn. Give it to your mother to listen to when she’s in sorrow.”

— Yoko Ono

118. “Every time I create something, just before that there’s a kind of – you’re feeling very low, you’re feeling very down and insecure. Then you create and then it’s fine. This is the way I observe me doing it.”

— Yoko Ono

119. “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.”

— Yoko Ono

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

— Yoko Ono

121. “Be kind once a day – even if it’s just in your mind.”

— Yoko Ono

122. “If your judgement is clouded, you must be carrying too many things which are being a burden to you.”

— Yoko Ono

123. “People accuse artists of being narcissists – of course we are! If we don’t like ourselves, who’s going to like us?”

— Yoko Ono

124. “Marriage is a gamble, let’s be honest.”

— Yoko Ono

125. “Tell the Earth how much you care, how beautiful she is, and how much you love her. Ask for her forgiveness for having been so careless.”

— Yoko Ono

126. “Even my mother told me: ‘You are a handsome woman, but you’re not pretty. Pretty girls don’t have those big bones.’”

— Yoko Ono

127. “I am the type of person who would do something thoroughly if someone said, “I don’t think you can do it.” I am extremely rebellious. I have this strong, defiant spirit.”

— Yoko Ono

128. “Think of the Earth as a turning point in eternity. Think of the Earth as a meeting point in infinity.”

— Yoko Ono

129. “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.”

— Yoko Ono

130. “The first idea, the first art piece I ever did, was when I was four. I cut the seed of a pear in half and the seed of an apple in half in put those two halves together and planted the seed, hoping a very strange tree might grow. And I never stopped.”

— Yoko Ono

131. “No one person could have broken up a band, especially one the size of the Beatles.”

— Yoko Ono

132. “Music is like my security blanket.”

— Yoko Ono

133. “After my husband John Lennon passed away, I tried to smile for my health.”

— Yoko Ono

134. “I started to notice that simpleness is divine. I think we all start trying to use very complex harmonies and rhythms and all that because of a certain kind of ambition. But I was always trying to create something simple.”

— Yoko Ono

135. “My father was a banker, but he was an independent spirit. He was a very good pianist and very much into music.”

— Yoko Ono

136. “Faces can lie. Backsides can’t.”

— Yoko Ono

137. “Spring passes and one remembers one’s innocence.”

— Yoko Ono

138. “I saw that nothing was permanent. You don’t want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it.”

— Yoko Ono

139. “I relate to happiness as an ecstatic moment – something you don’t create, you encounter.”

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140. “Sometimes I have compared myself with a scientist or something: when you discover something and you don’t expect the whole world to understand it. I always thought I was doing that kind of activity, in art and in music too.”

— Yoko Ono

141. “When you’re imagining peace, you can’t kill anyone. That’s good isn’t it?”

— Yoko Ono

142. “I just like to explore all sorts of different forms – no, ‘explore’ is not even the word – enjoy. You don’t want to limit yourself to a particular form.”

— Yoko Ono

143. “When I hear music, my body just starts to move. It has nothing to do with training or anything. That’s just me. That’s just my body. And I was like that as a child, too.”

— Yoko Ono

144. “I have a woman inside my soul.”

— Yoko Ono

145. “I don’t work for a long time on anything. I don’t have too much time in life.”

— Yoko Ono

146. “There’s a big difference between sending your art in a statement or something like that, and sending yourself there. When you send yourself somewhere, then you are sharing your information uncontrollably – like all yourself.”

— Yoko Ono

147. “John would have been the first white rapper. And also he would have cherished the Internet.”

— Yoko Ono

148. “Society tells you that when you’re old you have to retire. You have to defy that.”

— Yoko Ono

149. “The people have got to trust in themselves.”

— Yoko Ono

150. “Please know that being 80 is not a scary thing. When you’re 80, your life is much freer.”

— Yoko Ono