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People just love to be entertained, and in order to entertain them, you have to do things in a way that they understand.

I am extremely rebellious. I have this strong, defiant spirit.

Why do they cover Paul's songs but never mine?

Look at a star in the sky not as something unreachable but as a planet you would visit one day.

Many incredible artists die before they were famous.

All I can say is, it's not very easy for a woman to be associated with The Beatles.

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

John wrote with a very deep love for the human race and a concern for its future.

Look at yourself in the mirror and don't be afraid to notice how beautiful you are.

Jimmy Carter is the embodiment of dignity, grace, and the hope for a better world - Carlos Santana

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

Being alone is very difficult.

Imagine painting all the statues in the world in the color of the sky

I always thought that I was an important musician. If you don't have that confidence, why would you go on and do it?

I think people place limitations on each other and on ourselves. There is a great fear of expressing ourselves, of making creativity happen.

Art is a way of survival.

Art for me is like breathing.

There are things you can never take, no matter how strong you are.

When I turned 60, it didn't bother me at all.

Next time you meet a 'foreigner', remember it's only like a window with a different shape to it and the person who's sitting inside is you.

Fracking kills, and it doesn't just kill us. It kills the land, nature and, eventually, the whole world.

Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.

I'm kind of honored to be a dragon lady. The dragon is a very powerful, mythical animal.

Losing my daughter was a very serious pain. There was always some empty space in my heart.

I never thought I would go into the dance charts.

It is sad that the air is the only thing we share. No matter how close we get to each other, there is always air between us.

Having a son is not all pleasure.

Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.

We don't read people's wishes. The wishes are suppose to be direct communication to the Universe. Your interception will weaken the power of the wish.

We are all dreamers creating the next world, the next beautiful world for ourselves and for our children.

In a way the new music showed things could be transformed by new channels of communication.

You may think I'm small, but I have a universe inside my mind.

When you're imagining peace, you can't kill anyone. That's good isn't it?

A lot of things have been thrown at me in life, and I've got through it all without a rule book, taking it one day at a time.

If I was a Jewish girl in Hitler's day, I would become his girlfriend. After ten days in bed, he would come to my way of thinking.

Everything has complexity. Everything has simplicity. You just grab it.

See what you can do. See what you want to do. See what you will do about it. Find your way out.

Getting into creating in a new genre is like arriving to a new country.

If you go back to all my albums, they're all confessional.

I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it

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

The only instrument I can play is piano. Whenever I make songs at home, I play the piano and make them on the piano.

Cosmetics is a boon to every woman, but a girl's best beauty aid is still a near-sighted man.

When people don't understand my work, I don't feel like explaining.

We don't live by just sleeping and eating. We need pride and dignity in our lives. Work gives you that.

Over 1,057,000 people have been killed by guns in the USA since John Lennon was shot and killed on 8 Dec 1980,

When you say 'I love you', you are not just saying it to that person. You are saying 'I love you' to yourself, the planet & The Universe.

I see so many activists ... who are artists because they feel that they have the power of communication.

Creativity is innate and it manifests itself in so many forms. It needs to come out somehow or it destroys you in some way.

Try to say nothing negative about anybody.
a) for three days
b) for forty-five days
c) for three months
See what happens to your life.

When I'm inspired, I jot things down and put them in a pile.

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.

Stand in the evening light until you become transparent or until you fall asleep.

Imagine the clouds dripping Dig a hole in your garden to put them in

When you go through a negative situation, don't think about it. Make it positive.

But only art and music have the power to bring peace.

My work was not embraced for many decades. I would have killed myself if getting embraced affected me so much.

Violence isn't just a conceptual thing. it could happen to your kids.

Watch the sun until it comes into your body and stays as a tiny sun. It will keep your face shining even in the coldest of winter.

Music is something that even when you close your eyes it gets into your body.

I love to work. Doing things we love is how we relax, I think.

I thought art was a verb, rather than a noun.

I never want projects to be finished; I have always believed in unfinished work. I got that from Schubert, you know, the 'Unfinished Symphony.'

I get very sad when I think about Vietnam where there seems to be no choice but violence. This violence goes on for centuries perpetuating itself.

If you're criticized then you can use it as an experience. Compliments, you can't use.

I have a woman inside my soul.

A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.

The Beatles were a group made up of four very complex men, and my small hand could not have broken these men up.

You can be very wild and still be very wise.

Use your blood to paint. Keep painting until you faint. Keep painting until you die.

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

We need to really do something about the world. Otherwise, we're all going to blow up together.

Give death announcements each time you move instead of giving announcements of the change of address. Send the same when you die.

After my husband John Lennon passed away, I tried to smile for my health.

A dream you dream alone may be a dream, but a dream two people dream together is a reality.

If your judgement is clouded, you must be carrying too many things which are being a burden to you.

If your life changes, we can change the world, too.

My first husband met me as a career woman, and the second did, too. I was lucky.

It's a waste of time to think that if you colored a painting red what might have happened if you painted it black.

Write down everything you fear in life.
Burn it.
Pour herbal oil with a sweet scent on the ashes.

I like artists who have something to say, not wallpaper.

My life was pretty rough.

It's better to dance than to march through life.

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

Music is like my security blanket. The first medium that I learned was music.

Countries have lost their culture because what they wanted was money. Money became the running theme in every country and culture was sacrificed.

Women artists are still treated differently from men.

I don't believe in a chronological way of doing things.

The only way you can better John is by copying him exactly.

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.

Artists are going to be the metronome of this society.

Every drop in the ocean counts.

I relate to happiness as an ecstatic moment - something you don't create, you encounter.

We've been filled with great treasure for one purpose: to be spilled.

Bad stories are written about me because the press knows they can make me into a weeping dog and few people will object.

Society tells you that when you're old you have to retire. You have to defy that.

People are still thinking of solving problems by violence and war, and that has to stop.

My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.

The cynicism that you have is not your real soul.

You are water
I'm water
we're all water in different containers
that's why it's so easy to meet
someday we'll evaporate together.