Yoko Ono Quotes

Don't ever give up on life. Life can be so beautiful, especially after you've spent a lot of time with it.

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

We’ve been filled with great treasure for one purpose: to be spilled.

Use your blood to paint. Keep painting until you faint. Keep painting until you die.

I usually stay away from being carried away, But one day I saw a silver horse. I thought he might take me to that somewhere high, I thought he might take me to that deep blue sky. I came to realize that the horse had no wings. No wings, well, it wasn't so bad, you know. I learnt to travel the world around And run on the ground in the morning. And that's the story of a wandering soul, A story of a dreamer.

MIRROR PIECE

Instead of obtaining a mirror, obtain a person.
Look into him.
Use different people.
Old, young, fat, small, etc.

1964 spring

count

count the clouds
name them

8th day (afternoon)

I thought art was a verb, rather than a noun.

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

"water talk

you are water
I’m water
we’re all water in different containers
that’s why it’s so easy to meet
someday we’ll evaporate together.

but even after the water's gone
we'll probably point out to the containers
and say, "that's me there, that one"
we're container minders"

O SANITY

It’s only sane to be insane
Psychotic builds a castle
And neurotic lives in it
I don’t know what to do with my sanity
When the world’s at the verge of calamity
O’ sanity, o’ sanity
What am I to do with you
Drink up, shoot up, anything you please
But you’re always standing behind me
Like a devil in hell
O’ sanity, sanity
Why don’t you let me go?
Let go, let go!
Cut it out!

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

If Lennon were alive today, he probably would have reconciled with the man he accused of having "made a fool of everyone." John would have been the first one now, if he had been there, to recognise and acknowledge what Maharishi has done for the world and appreciate it.

Whereas John and Yoko might have comfortably lounged around in holiday mode on palatial country estates...the Lennons had this extraordinary urge and need to put something back. To stand up for reason in an unreasonable world, to take advantage of their extraordinary media profile to refocus public attitude and outlook on the murdering of other humans. (Ritchie Yorke)

Mirror becomes a razor when it's broken. A stick becomes a flute when it's loved.