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" Japanese are very proud and workaholics. Proud workaholics. "

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" I don't have time to listen to anybody's music. I'm making it, you know. "

" I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away. "

" I just want to be healthy and stay alive and keep my family going and everything and keep my friends going and try to do something so that this world will be peaceful. That is the most ambitious and the most difficult thing, but I'm there trying to do it. "

" We artists have the dignity to tell the truth to the people, unlike politicians. "

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" The art world was not initially really accepting my kind of work. I was ahead of my time. "

" The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves. "

" All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds! "

" 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 karmic connection! "

" When people ask me what the most important thing is in life, I answer: 'Just breathe.' "

" 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 they are frightened. "

" The process is always the same. I get an inspiration for a new song, I put it down on paper immediately so I won't lose it. When I am ready to go to the studio with it, I play it a few times on the piano and edit, add, and type the lyrics and take it to the studio. Sometimes I don't have anything on paper. "

" Art for me is like breathing. "

" Women have become stronger, and there's a backlash. Men have become terribly possessive. I find it much easier to get on with women. "

" Many people do remember their births, but they deny it. "

" If a woman writes about a domestic situation, everyone automatically assumes that it's about her. "

" Art is my life and my life is art. "

" I'm a very obsessive type. If I do get into it, I'll soon be there 12 hours a day. I just don't want to do that. "

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" Great Art is Great because it inspired you greatly. If it didn't, no matter what the critics, the museums and the galleries say, it's not great art for you. "

" Being alone is very difficult. "

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" I must say that I always thought I had a voice, even when I was 4 years old. "