Top 280 Yoko Ono Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “I did not break up the Beatles. You can’t have it both ways. If you’re going to blame me for breaking the Beatles up, you should be thankful that I made them into myth rather than a crumbling group.”

— Yoko Ono

152. “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.”

— Yoko Ono

153. “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.”

— Yoko Ono

154. “In your head, a sunset can go on for days.”

— Yoko Ono

155. “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.”

— Yoko Ono

156. “Art is an effort to make you walk a half an inch above ground.”

— Yoko Ono

157. “I never went to art school and I never thought of going to an art school. It was just a way of manifesting these ideas I had. Ideas came to me that I needed to express.”

— Yoko Ono

158. “I have the outsider’s vision, which is creating wisdom I can share with the world. The fact that I am misunderstood has always given me an added impetus to work on communication to bridge the gap.”

— Yoko Ono

159. “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.”

— Yoko Ono

160. “My husband John Lennon was a very special man. A man of humble origin, he brought light and hope to the whole world with his words and music.”

— Yoko Ono

161. “When you are totally depressed, you should try giggling. Just make yourself laugh. Force yourself to laugh.”

— Yoko Ono

162. “You should do something that will make your heart dance once a day. If you can’t do that because you’re too depressed, then do something that will make somebody else’s heart dance.”

— Yoko Ono

163. “Love is an incredibly strong thing, it goes everywhere, it’s like water, you can’t stop it. Love, once you have it, once you create a kind of pathway for it to come out, it just keeps on coming out.”

— Yoko Ono

164. “Cosmetics is a boon to every woman, but a girl’s best beauty aid is still a near-sighted man.”

— Yoko Ono

165. “Give death announcements each time you move instead of giving announcements of the change of address. Send the same when you die.”

— Yoko Ono

166. “I’m into indie music. I think indie is going to bring back the spirit in music. There was a time when it was all about accommodating the music business, the music was getting tasteless, but the spirit is back.”

— Yoko Ono

167. “Many of my songs were dance orientated from way back. That’s because I love dance! When I hear a dance number, just hearing the first eight bars, it immediately makes my bod start moving and dancing.”

— Yoko Ono

168. “I think if you give in and accept society’s stereotypes, then you start thinking, ‘I cannot dance till late at night because I’m 70.’”

— Yoko Ono

169. “I am aware of the sufferings of women in India, which is also the suffering of women in many, many countries on our planet. My heart is filled with empathy and love for them.”

— Yoko Ono

170. “You can’t always be in awe of someone’s talent, living with them.”

— Yoko Ono

171. “Women are very intelligent and not appreciated. We try to pretend that we are not clever, and it’s such a pity that we can’t show how clever we are.”

— Yoko Ono

172. “My life has always been unplanned. So when something comes along, I feel like, Why not give it a try? It’s fun to experiment like that.”

— Yoko Ono

173. “Art is like breathing for me. If I don’t do it, I start to choke.”

— Yoko Ono

174. “I thought art was a verb, rather than a noun.”

— Yoko Ono

175. “The boats outside the window were always still I wondered if one of them would take me to the ocean.”

— Yoko Ono

176. “Women have become stronger, and there’s a backlash. Men have become terribly possessive. I find it much easier to get on with women.”

— Yoko Ono

177. “When you burn the chair, you suddenly realize that the chair in your mind did not burn or disappear.”

— Yoko Ono

178. “There’s many women now who think, ‘Surely we don’t need feminism anymore, we’re all liberated and society’s accepting us as we are’. Which is just hogwash. It’s not true at all.”

— Yoko Ono

179. “Being alone is very difficult.”

— Yoko Ono

180. “There is an incredible love in creating art unless somebody is saying, ‘Hey, let’s just make money,’ because it doesn’t work when you do it that way. If you are aiming for that, forget it.”

— Yoko Ono

181. “I’m a politician. Politics is just a convenience for our life and we just have to create a beautiful world together that would be very convenient for us and just enjoyable.”

— Yoko Ono

182. “Dance in your dream. Go out into the street and hug everyone you meet. Tell them how beautiful they are. Dance together.”

— Yoko Ono

183. “It’s a waste of time to think that if you colored a painting red what might have happened if you painted it black.”

— Yoko Ono

184. “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.”

— Yoko Ono

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

— Yoko Ono

186. “I feel sad that he’s just a voice now.”

— Yoko Ono

187. “It’s always good to do something that is not a repeat. I just don’t believe in repeating.”

— Yoko Ono

188. “Bless you for your jealousy; it is a sign of empathy.”

— Yoko Ono

189. “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.”

— Yoko Ono

190. “Everyone is an artist and a genius, I think. If we don’t choose to limit ourselves then we are totally accomplished.”

— Yoko Ono

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

— Yoko Ono

192. “I’m very thankful that I can make people happy just by signing my name.”

— Yoko Ono

193. “Someday I’ll be remembered for The phone calls I never made Letters I never mailed And the stories I never finished telling anyone.”

— Yoko Ono

194. “The amazing thing is that we could live in the world together peacefully, feed the world, shelter the world. We have that capability both spiritually and technologically.”

— Yoko Ono

195. “I think of John every day. I do try to block it, but December 8th is not the only day I think of him.”

— Yoko Ono

196. “Imagine painting all the statues in the world in the color of the sky.”

— Yoko Ono

197. “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.”

— Yoko Ono

198. “I never want projects to be finished; I have always believed in unfinished work. I got that from Schubert, you know, the ‘Unfinished Symphony.’”

— Yoko Ono

199. “My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds – a totally different dimension from the daily life.”

— Yoko Ono

200. “Everything has complexity. Everything has simplicity. You just grab it.”

— Yoko Ono