Yoko Ono (b.1933,) fully Yōko Ono Lennon, is a Japanese artist, writer, singer, and campaigner. A prominent practitioner of conceptual and performance art in the 1960s, she became universally famous as the wife and artistic companion of musician John Lennon.
Born into a wealthy family in Tokyo, Ono moved to the U.S. after World War II. A founder member of the Fluxus art movement, she established a reputation as an avant-garde filmmaker, intermittently branching out into experimental music.
Ono’s marriage to Lennon in 1969 brought her instant stardom, the consequences of which were mixed. She was criticized for her role in the 1970 break-up of the Beatles. She had a profound effect on Lennon’s experimental and psychedelic work throughout the late ’60s. They worked together in the Plastic Ono Band and various well-publicized peace protests.
Since Lennon’s murder in 1980, Ono has protected his unpublished work and has continued to campaign for peace and proper recognition of women’s importance to society.
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I wonder why men get serious at all. They have this delicate, long thing hanging outside their bodies which goes up and down by its own will. If I were a man I would always be laughing at myself.
—Yoko Ono
Topics: Men
All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!
—Yoko Ono
Topics: Music
Healing yourself is connected with healing others.
—Yoko Ono
We’re all water from different rivers,
That’s why it’s so easy to meet,
We’re all water in this vast, vast ocean,
Someday we’ll evaporate together.
—Yoko Ono
Spring passes and one remembers one’s innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one’s exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one’s reverence. Winter passes and one remembers one’s perseverance.
—Yoko Ono
Topics: Spring
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