Top 195 Quotes by Yoko Ono

Society tells you that when you're old you have to retire. You have to defy that.

I get very nervous before I get on the stage, but once I'm on the stage, I'm just, you know, me. Nothing hurts me.

If you go back to all my albums, they're all confessional.

I feel that my work is not in vain, that it does have a place in society, even though it may not be considered that it has a place in society - it doesn't matter.

Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.

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

After I was 70, I realized that, 'Okay, I would like to have another 50 years, and I probably could.' But part of me is saying, 'Maybe I'm not going to have that much time.'

I like artists who have something to say, not wallpaper.

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

Countries have lost their culture because what they wanted was money. Money became the running theme in every country and culture was sacrificed.