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" I just go with the flow, so any style can be in my music - that makes it exciting. "
Yoko Ono
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" Why do they cover Paul's songs but never mine? "
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" In the '60s, people were still very protective of each field that they belonged to. Avant-garde artists didn't know about rock or pop or jazz. And the jazz people of course didn't want to know about any other music. They were all just kind of protecting their territory. "
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" I was being hated for about 40 or 50 years by the whole world, but it did not destroy me, and it did not ruin my health. And the reason is because I just did not answer them. I had my own life. "
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" The only instrument I can play is piano. Whenever I make songs at home, I play the piano and make them on the piano. "
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" In the Second World War, I was a little girl. I was evacuated in my country. "
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" When I got pregnant, I had to concentrate on being pregnant for a whole nine months, even though I knew it was ruining my career at the time. "
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