Top 280 Yoko Ono Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “This society is driven by neurotic speed and force accelerated by greed and frustration of not being able to live up to the image of men and woman we have created for ourselves; the image has nothing to do with the reality of people.”

— Yoko Ono

202. “Touch, touch, touch, touch me love, I’m shaking inside.”

— Yoko Ono

203. “Fracking is an incredible risk to the human race, I don’t know why they even thought of doing it.”

— Yoko Ono

204. “If everybody thinks of something, then it will happen. Your mind is part of the universe. It is connected, you can use its energy.”

— Yoko Ono

205. “I think that there is incredible prejudice about witches while there is no prejudice about wizards. Words are very important, and I’m really into destroying myths.”

— Yoko Ono

206. “Energy is so important. If you don’t have it, don’t bother with rock and roll.”

— Yoko Ono

207. “Life with another person is always difficult.”

— Yoko Ono

208. “Power is power. It’s energy. And if you get big, big energy, you can use that in a good way.”

— Yoko Ono

209. “Artists are magicians and I definitely think John Lennon was a Wizard.”

— Yoko Ono

210. “Sometimes the father feels pushed out because of the connection between the mother and the child.”

— Yoko Ono

211. “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.”

— Yoko Ono

212. “Artists are going to be the metronome of this society.”

— Yoko Ono

213. “In the Second World War, I was a little girl. I was evacuated in my country.”

— Yoko Ono

214. “At least I had that, one guy understood me.”

— Yoko Ono

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

— Yoko Ono

216. “It is very difficult for us to know we love somebody because it is an insecure position to be in. But in the end, it is important to be honest about your love because life is not that long.”

— Yoko Ono

217. “People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication.”

— Yoko Ono

218. “I saw sorrow turning into clarity.”

— Yoko Ono

219. “When you go on a stage, before you go on a stage you’re really scared and you’re really frightened. You don’t know what to do. “Why did I say yes to this?” But once you’re on the stage you think, “Okay.””

— Yoko Ono

220. “True artists are prophets. I don’t want to be that prophetic in that sense because it’s so lonely.”

— Yoko Ono

221. “I was born into a very important family in Japan. My grandfather was a descendant of the Emperor, and we were very wealthy.”

— Yoko Ono

222. “What is beauty? It’s what you love.”

— Yoko Ono

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

— Yoko Ono

224. “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.”

— Yoko Ono

225. “You know harmony only exists in music-isn’t that amazing? I think that if you see earth from very far away, the color is blue. That is very interesting because blue is the color of communication.”

— Yoko Ono

226. “If you’re criticized then you can use it as an experience. Compliments, you can’t use.”

— Yoko Ono

227. “I think there is a big difference between the music business and music. And my relationship is to music, not music business. I think the business will keep changing, but music won’t. Music will be there.”

— Yoko Ono

228. “I respect Lady Gaga very much.”

— Yoko Ono

229. “I’m not the kind of woman who would love to make soup or knit sweaters. I never cherished that so much.”

— Yoko Ono

230. “When I turned 60, it didn’t bother me at all.”

— Yoko Ono

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

— Yoko Ono

232. “Perhaps one feels more pain when parents are there. It’s like when you’re hungry, you know, it’s worse to get a symbol of a cheeseburger than no cheeseburger at all. It doesn’t do you any good, you know.”

— Yoko Ono

233. “I travel a lot, so when I arrive in a city, I like to go to good local bookshops and make a selection based on how I’m feeling and what I’m thinking. The book I pick usually seems to have a definite karmic connection!”

— Yoko Ono

234. “Jimmy Carter is the embodiment of dignity, grace, and the hope for a better world – Carlos Santana.”

— Yoko Ono

235. “I think that there is a sort of spiritual power that is translating into our bodies as we perform. Performers give, and giving is so important. It can heal. That is my experience, anyway.”

— Yoko Ono

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

— Yoko Ono

237. “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.”

— Yoko Ono

238. “I’m not going to doubt my life.”

— Yoko Ono

239. “When I’m inspired, I jot things down and put them in a pile.”

— Yoko Ono

240. “You can’t dance if you got too much muck in your head.”

— Yoko Ono

241. “My life was pretty rough.”

— Yoko Ono

242. “I get very sad when I think about Vietnam where there seems to be no choice but violence. This violence goes on for centuries perpetuating itself.”

— Yoko Ono

243. “What we do really affects the world. Most of us think we can’t do anything, but it really isn’t true.”

— Yoko Ono

244. “Women artists are still treated differently from men.”

— Yoko Ono

245. “Mothers are not supposed to give guidance.”

— Yoko Ono

246. “I’m not interested so much in collaboration. You see that from the history of my albums.”

— Yoko Ono

247. “If a woman writes about a domestic situation, everyone automatically assumes that it’s about her.”

— Yoko Ono

248. “Love is what it takes to fly.”

— Yoko Ono

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

— Yoko Ono

250. “You can’t always measure the effects of activist work; you just have to wish and pray that the message gets through.”

— Yoko Ono