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Fuck Yeah Yoko Ono

December 2009

91 posts

“Tape the sound of friends laughing together. Save it for a rainy day.”

– Yoko Ono (via eloisalopez)

“Tape the sound of your baby son crying. Let him listen to the tape when he is...”

– Yoko Ono (via thewolffofthesea)

Question: What is your funniest story to make people laugh? Tell us some! Yoko: I don’t have one. I seem to make people laugh without trying! (Yoko QandA Day)

Question: How does a non conformist woman keep her spirits up in a world where women are often considered as less important than men? Yoko: I think what we think of women is more important than what others may think of us. I think of women with pride and dignity. I think we are hot! We are the hottest! And we will prove it by the miracles we create for the world. They need us. (Yoko QandA Day)

Back on December 26, 2006, Yoko Ono was guest... →

Taxis to Show Art by Shirin Neshat, Alex Katz and... →

Yoko Ono (The Perennial One) →

The Importance of Yoko Ono by Murray Sayle →

An “account of the intellectual origins of Yoko Ono” from 2000.

“Yoko did everything first. Before Bowie and Eno, before Punk, before you even....”

– funknroll from Youtube (via joanmargaret)

Question: What do you advise to emerging artists in the face of a world that dismisses the arts? Being Yoko helps in being taken seriously. Yoko: Being me did not help to being taken seriously. Even now, the number of people who even know that I am an artist is very, very small. It is inspirational and encouraging to know that some people know my work. I think it is better to concentrate on what...

Question: Dear Mrs Ono! What is your advice for us for the new year? What will be the most important thing to pay attention for? Thank you. Yoko: Believe in yourself. Stay healthy. Stay in love with your life. All of what you do is changing our Universe for the better. Every little thing you think and do, effect our world and is making it better. Know that we appreciate that. And keep catching our...

Question: What do you think of your reputation? Yoko: Which one? (Yoko QandA Day)

Question: If you have a time machine, what era do you wanna go & whom do you wanna meet? Caesar? Yoko: Why Ceasar? He is not a very evolved person, is he? I would not want to waste my time having a small talk with a macho guy in the past. We have plenty of them now. I would rather meet somebody who would be alive 100 years from now. (Yoko QandA Day)

Question: What’s the best and the worst thing about being yoko ono? Do you enjoy the popularity? Yoko: It made me smile that you thought I was enjoying my popularity. Does that mean I am popular? (Yoko QandA Day)

THE LIGHTER, by Yoko Ono

fuckyeahjohnandyoko: Karuizawa is an old summer resort in Japan very much like the Hamptons except it’s in the mountains. There is a coffee house in a pine forest near Karuizawa. John & I fell in love with the place, and found ourselves going there almost every day with Sean. To get there, you had to go cycling for about 30 minutes from the town of Karuizawa. But we loved going there. There...

“Your room is an extension of your mind. If a room is lop-sided, just trying to...”

Question: In one sentence, what would you say is the definition of perfect love? Yoko: What you dream of. (Yoko QandA Day)

Question: Do you believe in happily ever after? Yoko: Like with some guy? No. I am happily ever after now, being lucky enough to be single. (Yoko QandA Day)

“Be kind to yourself this evening. Buy something for yourself. Treat yourself to...”

– Yoko Ono (via daisykidz)

Style Icon: Yoko Ono

holdenarchive: Yoko Yoko Yoko. Oh, Yoko.

“Watch a hundred-year-old tree breathe. Thank the tree in your mind for showing...”

ONO: “NO, NO, NO” is #4 in Billboard Best Hot... →

(Song plays automatically when the linked page loads.) Congratulations, Yoko!

“What it is really a shame is that John didn’t influence Yoko as much as Yoko...”

– Juan Forn in Pagina 12, translated from Spanish by Jorge Artajo After reading these closing lines, I’m sitting here with tears in my eyes.

“The feminist thing is still very, very important. Most people think, ‘That’s...”