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.
A lot of things have been thrown at me in life, and I've got through it all without a rule book, taking it one day at a time.
Each time we don't say what we wanna say, we're dying.
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 k...
When I'm putting some communication out on Twitter or Facebook or Instagram, I think that it's helping me, my brain, you know, because it's always somehow stimulated by people who are sending things t...
When all that hate energy was focused on me it was transformed into a fantastic energy. It was supporting me. If you are centered and you can transform all this energy that comes in it will help you...
The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves.
What the Beatles did was something incredible, it was more than what a band could do. We have to give them respect.
Is truth always positive? Of course. Once the truth comes out, you know, it's all right. We're scared that if the truth comes out that it's not all right. It's the other way around.
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.
A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.
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 the...
When I speak out against the guns or against the big corporations, some of my friends say, 'Oh Yoko, be careful. These people have all the power.' But, you know, most people don't speak out because th...
Nobody's life is a bed of roses. We all have crosses to bear, and we all just do our best. I would never claim to have the worst situation. There are many widows, and many people dying of AIDS, many p...
Tape the sound of the moon fading at dawn. Give it to your mother to listen to when she's in sorrow.
Distance doesn't exist, in fact, and neither does time. Vibrations from love or music can be felt everywhere, at all times.
The only instrument I can play is piano. Whenever I make songs at home, I play the piano and make them on the piano.
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.
You change the world by being yourself.
The computer is my favourite invention. I feel lucky to be part of the global village. I don't mean to brag, but I'm so fast with technology. People think it all seems too much, but we'll get used to...