Fuck Yeah Yoko Ono

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March 2010

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Part Four of Yoko Ono’s Stanford Lecture This final part is a Q&A between Yoko and the audience. She talks about Cut Piece, art and creativity, the importance of self-care, why she is not a chair (!), and more.

Part Three of the Stanford University lecture is called Five Films and Chair Piece. It is made up of the following films and performance, as well as Yoko discussing them a bit: Freedom (1971) Cut Piece (1965) Cut Piece (2003) Chair Piece It’s Time For Action (2000) Outro (2000)

Part Two of Yoko Ono’s 2009 Stanford Lecture This section is Yoko’s film Passages of Light. It is a combination of her films ONOCHORD and IMAGINE PEACE TOWER.

On January 14, 2009, Yoko Ono gave a lecture at Stanford University. The entire lecture is about an hour and a half long, so I’m going to post one of the four parts each day. (If, of course, you’d prefer to view it all at once, you can find it here.) This is Part One: Childhood. It is basically made up entirely of home movies of Yoko and her family from the 1930s. There is so much...

Question: Is there any way to get rid of depressed feeling? lost my loved one 9 months ago, i don’t know how i start or what should do first. Yoko: As you know, I lost mine in a very cruel way. So I think I understand what you are going through. First, you have to thank the fact that you are still alive. You look around the nature which are alive. Budding branches. A shining river. The light that...

Question: What did you dream about when you where 18? Yoko: I knew I would be somebody. And I am. (Yoko QandA Day)

Question: Sometimes I feel like a coward by not trying to speak up what’s in my mind, do you have any idea how to deal with this problem? Yoko: I’m having the same problem. But if I said everything I wanted to say…I might not be alive now! (Yoko QandA Day)

Question: If John could come back for a day what would you and him do for the day? Yoko: I’m not telling! (Yoko QandA Day)

Question: What if… the world was ruled by women? How do you imagine it would be? Yoko: It may not be perfect. But it’s good to give a rest to the guys….like 100 years. You wanna try? (Yoko QandA Day)

Question: I was once told we all say “I love you” too much and therefore lose its meaning. Do you believe in that? By the way, I love you. Yoko: Saying I love you, is really powerful thing.. Even if you thought you were saying it without true conviction, the fact that it was said creates a “love reality.” It circulates and is appreciated by the Universe. (Yoko QandA Day)

Interviewer: I remember those early clips of you. When you were silent, you were seen as a sort of black spider, sitting in the background. When you spoke, you were seen as domineering. Yoko Ono: I think that in some ways most women do go through that. You can’t really stand up for yourself, because then people say, “How dare you!” and if you’re silent, then they will think there’s something...

A QUIET REVOLUTION by YOKO ONO – speech for Oxford... →

Evil often presents itself to us as an illusion of goodness. So by being confused, instead of freeing ourselves from it, we could be destroyed by it. To protect ourselves, each one of us must clearly see what Evil really is. Evil is only a dis-ease (disease) created by confused minds, which eventually disappears by its own steam. But it can do so much harm before it self-destruct. So we must do...

ONO: Give Me Something (2010 Remix) #4 in... →

NEW YORK – YOKO ONO continues to keep her fingers on the pulse of underground and commercial dance music with her new single, “GIVE ME SOMETHING” (THE REMIXES). On the Billboard Club Play Chart (issue date: 03/27/2010) GIVE ME SOMETHING reaches #4 (with a bullet). It is the latest offering in the pioneering avant-garde icon’s acclaimed Remix series, that has spawned 5 x #1 dance singles: “I’M...

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