Quotes from Yoko Ono

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

In a way the new music showed things could be transformed by new channels of communication.

Fracking kills, and it doesn't just kill us. It kills the land, nature and, eventually, the whole world.

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.

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.

Remember, each one of us has the power to change the world. Just start thinking peace, and the message will spread quicker than you think.

Words are power. And a book is full of words. Be careful what power you get from it. But know that you do.

Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.

Luckily we never injected because both of us were totally scared about needles. So that probably saved us. And the other thing that saved us was our connection was not very good.

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

I relate to happiness as an ecstatic moment - something you don't create, you encounter.

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

I'm not interested so much in collaboration. You see that from the history of my albums.

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

You may think I'm small, but I have a universe inside my mind.

You change the world by being yourself.

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

It's a waste to not say anything with art.

In the '60s we fought for peace, when the Vietnam war was on. We were against the cops and against the politicians, and there was a lot of waving banners and all that. And I think in a way, just as they were enjoying that machoism of war, we were enjoying the machismo of being anti-war, you know?

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!

Having a son is not all pleasure.

The Beatles were a group made up of four very complex men, and my small hand could not have broken these men up.

I see so many activists... who are artists because they feel that they have the power of communication.

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.