Some people think that movements, such as the movements in ballet, are a higher cultural expression, whereas some are just dirt. I think it is elitist to think that a trained movement is more acceptable than untrained and possibly unrehearsed movements.

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

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.

People don't remember each tree in a park but all of us benefit from the trees. And in a way, artists are like trees in a park.

To have a relationship that is pure and passionate and beautiful - I think people are scared of having that now. Especially guys.

People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication.

Events are the best teacher for us. You try to learn from people, there is always some bend to it.

I admire all people who are trying to be a good power in this chaotic world.

I think energy is the most important thing that we can give to people as performers. Anything else is a little bit pretentious. But energy is not.

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

Our public officials have forgotten that they are ultimately accountable to the people who put them in office, that the information they keep in secrecy belongs to all of us.

If you have too many quotes from other people in your head, you can't create. You have to keep your head empty. That's why I am constantly enjoying the sky, the park, the walk.

DJs are in incredible competition, musically. And they are the most musically creative and sensitive people in all the music charts. I am amazed how they are.

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.

The world is full of people who have stopped listening to themselves.

Out of perfection nothing can be made. Every process involves breaking something up. The earth must be broken to bring forth life. If the seed does not die there is no plant. Bread results from the death of wheat. Life lives on lives. Our own life lives on the acts of other people. If you are lifeworthy, you can take it.

Could God exist if nobody else did? No. That’s why gods are very avid for worshipers. If there is nobody to worship them, there are no gods. There are as many gods as there are people thinking about God. In choosing your god, you choose your way of looking at the universe. There are plenty of Gods. Choose yours. The god you worship is the god you deserve.

Read myths. They teach you that you can turn inward, and you begin to get the message of the symbols. Read other people's myths, not those of your own religion, because you tend to interpret your own religion in terms of facts -- but if you read the other ones, you begin to get the message.

You have to have a feeling for where you are. You've got only one life to live and you don't have to live it for six people. Pay attention to it.

When people find out what it is that's ticking in them, they get straightened out.

When you see the earth from the moon, you don't see any divisions there of nations or states. This might be the symbol, really, for the new mythology to come. That is the country that we are going to be celebrating. And those are the people that we are one with.

When you find a writer who really is saying something to you, read everything that writer has written and you will get more education and depth of understanding out of that than reading a scrap here and a scrap there and elsewhere. Then go to people who influenced that writer, or those who were related to him, and your world builds together in an organic way that is really marvelous.

People forget facts, but they remember stories.

The world without spirit is a wasteland. People have the notion of saving the world by shifting things around, changing the rules, and who's on top, and so forth. No, no! Any world is a valid world if it's alive. The thing to do is to bring life to it, and the only way to do that is to find in your own case where the life is and become alive yourself.