Yoko Ono Quotes

My career? I never think of it as a 'career.' Art and music and all those things that I'm creating are just part of me.

Yoko Ono

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: artist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 18, 1933

Topics

MusicArtMeThinkCareerCreating

I really feel strongly that we don't need to dumb things down for children.

Jessie Mueller

ChildrenFeelDownDumbNeedThings

The so-called alleged 'art' of the video - well, the video has killed the radio star, but the video star killed the live musician, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

John Lydon

LiveArtRadioStarWellMusician

Well, in Japan, I have got a group of musicians that I have worked with a lot, that concentrate just on the hardcore stuff, say, that Naked City has been working on. We have like a repertoire of sixty songs now.

John Zorn

CityMusiciansNowSayGroupNaked

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

John Steinbeck

IdeasLearnYouPrettyHandleDozen

With non-fiction, there is the struggle to be accurate. With fiction, it is a bit different: the desire to let imagination take you to new places.

Amitava Kumar

StruggleImaginationYouNewDesire

I am interested in struggle - between our hearts and our head, between principle and desire - and one of those struggles is with mortality; and no one at all is immune to it, which makes it even more interesting to me. Some people fall in love, some don't. Some sky dive, some don't. Everyone who lives, ages.

Amy Bloom

LoveStruggleSkyI AmPeopleMe

Americans assume that we never go to war to sustain our wealth, because war must be understood as a moral enterprise commensurate with our being a democracy.

Stanley Hauerwas

WarDemocracyWealthGoMoralNever

Nowadays you can record on your laptop with Pro Tools, which I do quite often.

Ronnie Wood

ToolsYouLaptopYourQuiteOften

Favorite movie lists are impossible for me to do.

Robert Zemeckis

MeImpossibleListsFavoriteMovie

I bought the VHS of 'Into the Woods' at the Suncoast in the Park City Mall and watched it in the basement when I got home. And when it was over, I rewound it and immediately watched it again.

Jonathan Groff

HomeCityWoodsOverParkMall

I was a schoolteacher for a while, and it was the worst job.

Diplo

JobWorstWhileSchoolteacher

There is no real way to categorize McLean's 'American Pie' for its hybrid of modern poetry and folk ballad, beer-hall chant and high-art rock.

Douglas Brinkley

PoetryAmericanPieRockWayReal

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