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 Im there trying to do it. – Yoko Ono
The only instrument I can play is piano. Whenever I make songs at home, I play the piano and make them on the piano. – Yoko Ono
When I was four years old, my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and composition. – Yoko Ono
If people want to make war they should make a color war, and paint each others’ cities up in the night in pinks and greens. – Yoko Ono
A preoccupied family: they none of them threw themselves into the interests of the rest, but each ploughed his or her own furrow. Their thoughts, their little passions and hopes and desires, all ran along separate lines. Family life is like this—animated, but collateral. – Rose Macaulay, Daisy & Daphne, 1928