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Yoko Ono

lines on the record: 48
first: 2007-06-10
most recent: 2007-06-10
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“Sayuki, which is a Chinese story, it's a very profound and pan Chinese story and it really changed my life when I was a little girl.”
2007-06-10 · Desert Island Discs · Yoko Ono · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“In conclusion, I want to give you my affirmation. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you for the beautiful planet we live on and enjoy in the most interesting, exciting and enlightening time of the history of the human race. Each of us was born at this time to fulfill a mission. Together we are in a process of healing and creating a better world for the lives of the planet. Our work is not yet done, but it will be done soon Bogud of all concerns so be it.”
2007-06-10 · Desert Island Discs · Yoko Ono · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“This is a very young woman's group in Iceland and Iceland happens to be my new love really. It's a beautiful beautiful country. There's a purity about it. And so when you go there, you get a whiff of clean air and good clean water. I mean, it's just a beautiful, beautiful magical country.”
2007-06-10 · Desert Island Discs · Yoko Ono · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You know what it is? The energy that was put into those works was the result of my life in a way. And so that those energies, if that would be any help to people and inspire people and encourage people to make their own, I'd be very happy.”
2007-06-10 · Desert Island Discs · Yoko Ono · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I mean, when I was listening to this beautiful boy I felt that Joan just jumped out the corner saying Good idea that was a good idea to select a beautiful boy and he's always there somehow sort of jumping out and saying things”
2007-06-10 · Desert Island Discs · Yoko Ono · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I don't know. I think that after John's passing, it was my pleasure, actually, to keep on. protecting his work, and I cherish the fact that I feel that I did my best. But at the same time, most of my time was spent on that, and I feel that Sean should not be bothered with it. It's too much of a burden for him. I mean, there's such a heavy pass that he's already burdened with. I just like to believe that he's working up there for us and I'm working here with him still.”
2007-06-10 · Desert Island Discs · Yoko Ono · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I suppose I have an incredible sense of myself, and that's the only reason why I was able to survive. I'm not surprised if I'm vilified again when I'm away I pass away. But I just want to say to my two children not to defend me. I don't want them to waste their time defending me. Don't even think about the past or your mother because your mother had a great life and you should know that.”
2007-06-10 · Desert Island Discs · Yoko Ono · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well that's a concern to you, yes, of course. But I try not to be concerned because It's better not to focus on a negative image of anything.”
2007-06-10 · Desert Island Discs · Yoko Ono · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So now shone in the very accomplished musician, singer songwriter, and I like this song very much, but in a way it's very painful for me to listen to this song, but somehow it does attract me, I mean this song attracts me always. It is a song opening.”
2007-06-10 · Desert Island Discs · Yoko Ono · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“When he was After he was It was a very hard time for me. But I was concerned about it. how it could affect Sean. I just couldn't tell him that night actually.”
2007-06-10 · Desert Island Discs · Yoko Ono · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, it was as sovereign, slightly warm night. Anda I said shall we go and have dinner or something before we go home I said, no, let's go home because I want to see Sean before he goes to sleep. And it was like he wasn't sure whether we can get home before he goes to sleep, maybe he's already gone to bed or something. He was concerned about that. But that's that last thing he said then, that he wanted to see Sean.”
2007-06-10 · Desert Island Discs · Yoko Ono · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“He was writing some songs, but he wasn't that pleased with what he was writing. And then in nineteen eighty, I just said, well, look, you're always talking about going on a trip on a yacht. So you should do it. And he did that and something opened up. And when he went to Bermuda, they started to write these beautiful songs.”
2007-06-10 · Desert Island Discs · Yoko Ono · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It was in a way his idea was we should make twenty-five million dollars because that's what in the papers it said that Paul made $25 million. Well, we have to make 25 million. All right, give me two years. And that was a real match remark on my part because I realized that I couldn't make it. So finally I said, well, could I have five years?”
2007-06-10 · Desert Island Discs · Yoko Ono · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I did, and he said, Of course, we're going to keep it. I was very upset with my remark. And I thought, well, yes, then we'll go ahead with this”
2007-06-10 · Desert Island Discs · Yoko Ono · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Because she just came back and we just got together and I became pregnant very soon. And I didn't know whether it was the right moment to have a child because maybe he didn't want to. I just didn't want to burden him with something that she didn't want.”
2007-06-10 · Desert Island Discs · Yoko Ono · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Not really I thought well I It sounds very strange now, I suppose, but I thought well I should let John decide whether I should keep it or not.”
2007-06-10 · Desert Island Discs · Yoko Ono · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Okay, beautiful boy well because I love most of John's songs. Well, I said most of just to make a sound right, but actually I love all of his songs, really. But I chose this because of Sean, you know, and I really appreciate the fact that John made this song for Sean. And of course John didn't know that he was going to pass away very soon. So I think it's important to play this one.”
2007-06-10 · Desert Island Discs · Yoko Ono · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, smack. But you know that luckily we never injected because both of us were totally scared about needles. So that probably saved us. And the other thing that saved us was our connection was not very good. And the connection kept giving us a lot laced with baby powder. In fact, we smelled talcum powder. We said, what is this? But that saved us, actually. Many rock stars, they had very good connections. And we would visit them. And, you know, they would have a big bowl of powder. And if we did something then, you know, we'd be so sort of so high actually. We couldn't even walk straight, you know? Is this what they're doing every day? and we weren't doing that way. I mean, we didn't have a connection like that”
2007-06-10 · Desert Island Discs · Yoko Ono · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think that was great in hindsight that I gave him the freedom. So he just did whatever he thought that he couldn't do when we're together.”
2007-06-10 · Desert Island Discs · Yoko Ono · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, you know, some people say it was 12 month and 14 month and 18 month. I mean, I don't really know. You can check it one day, I suppose. We were just feeling like our life was becoming a routine. And I didn't think that we should waste our time on that.”
2007-06-10 · Desert Island Discs · Yoko Ono · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And so I meditated my assistant to call Tokyo and get the hospital and get an ambulance go to my mother. And she was saved.”
2007-06-10 · Desert Island Discs · Yoko Ono · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Have you chosen? This is called When I Grow To All to Dream and it has a very personal memory for me. One day I just felt like I wanted to call my mother and I said hi and she said O Yoko and just the way she said it I felt that there was something very strange about it and she was saying I just fell I just fell in the kitchen something like that and I thought this is serious so I thought well I had to do something but I was in New York and she was in Japan so you know I said okay mommy let's sing that song remember that song that you used to sing and I started When I grow too old to dream and she went when I grow. No, no, okay, let's start again. When I grow you know and I kept repeating it and she finally sung the whole line and I was so choked up”
2007-06-10 · Desert Island Discs · Yoko Ono · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Why he was a very, very strong man, extremely so, and I think that he was dying to be like that way before he met me. And he just became himself.”
2007-06-10 · Desert Island Discs · Yoko Ono · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I know it's crazy because did we need any more publicity? I mean, personally, we didn't. And you know, in hindsight, I think that we did a very good thing.”
2007-06-10 · Desert Island Discs · Yoko Ono · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Would somebody do that? The world peace. Well, we thought that we were doing a good thing, you know, and we were very narcissistic about it and I think, great, great, you know. Oh, that's awesome.”
2007-06-10 · Desert Island Discs · Yoko Ono · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, that's Bob Molly, one love, one world, one people, and such a beautiful song that, you know, I have no word for it, really.”
2007-06-10 · Desert Island Discs · Yoko Ono · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The racism was always there, but I don't know, it was more than that. It was something about John being a There treasure something, and then you know it seems like I stole that from them or something. It was so shocking. I just didn't understand why that was happening really.”
2007-06-10 · Desert Island Discs · Yoko Ono · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“getting involved about the fact that he was a Beatles that started to sort of dawn on me that it's a little bit different situation and I might lose my freedom and then everybody was so upset with us so that they made stories.”
2007-06-10 · Desert Island Discs · Yoko Ono · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think that um Yes, you know, nineteen sixty seven is when we started to sort of touch base with each other and I felt scared about it actually.”
2007-06-10 · Desert Island Discs · Yoko Ono · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, that was just why he invited me and I went up to his house and already by then we know that we sort of well we were madly in love with each other actually so it was all right that I would go to visit him and I'm kind of late nightish time you know”
2007-06-10 · Desert Island Discs · Yoko Ono · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Exactly. So I said, all right, you know, he's playing the same game I'm playing. I thought he was very beautiful and very elegant.”
2007-06-10 · Desert Island Discs · Yoko Ono · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well no, he said could I have Manel in and I said No, because this is before the opening and I want to keep it clean. Then I thought no, no, you can do it if you pay I think five shillings. And that's because the night before I was thinking about the opening I thought what am I going to do? Because my work is conceptual. So nobody's going to buy them. So how am I going to justify my existence as an artist or whatever? So then I thought, oh, a good idea to make them pay to do these things, little things. And he didn't pay pop shillings. He said, Well, you know, is it all right if I have an imaginary nail in? And pay an imaginary money.”
2007-06-10 · Desert Island Discs · Yoko Ono · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'm a nanny in painting is desjaw and there's a hammer dangling on the side of this just a white block of wood actually and by many people hammering the nail and gradually the painting will become a different painting than just a block of white wood.”
2007-06-10 · Desert Island Discs · Yoko Ono · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I had a show in Indica gallery, and it was a one woman show, and just after I finished putting everything together. John D. who was the owner of Indica Gallery, just came in with John, but I didn't know it was John, some guy, you know. I mean, most people would not believe. I mean, they always say, well, you must have known. No, I just didn't.”
2007-06-10 · Desert Island Discs · Yoko Ono · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, this is Liverpool Lou, it's a lullaby, and I don't know why, but just one day, John, in England sung Liverpool Lou and said in a beautiful and you know when Sean was born, he would just sing this song until Sean goes to sleep almost every night.”
2007-06-10 · Desert Island Discs · Yoko Ono · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So, you know, sometimes, well, lecturing, and sometimes they ask me to lecture about my own work, but that was very rare. It was always lecturing about Japanese classic art, and I was very good at it. And also I was sometimes working in a company as a typist. I was working as a waitress as well. But also I had my pride as being an artist. And it was great that way. I felt very good because I was doing what I wanted to do.”
2007-06-10 · Desert Island Discs · Yoko Ono · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“very important. I mean, I cared about my work so much that I never thought that I could make money with it or I never thought I wanted to.”
2007-06-10 · Desert Island Discs · Yoko Ono · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I was a bit scary, but I just thought that this is the kind of work that has to be done. And for that I didn't mind taking the risk.”
2007-06-10 · Desert Island Discs · Yoko Ono · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, you see, it's sort of unfair to say that I became an albangal artist in New York. My background and my inspiration comes from Asian culture. And I was influenced by that a lot in Buddhism a lot, and it is surprising that I was really an Avangadist before I went to the United States.”
2007-06-10 · Desert Island Discs · Yoko Ono · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I know I was just amazed about that at the time I didn't think about it that way, but I really think that this is an example of how strong music can be. It communicates and unite people is incredible.”
2007-06-10 · Desert Island Discs · Yoko Ono · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“This is Lily Marlene, sung by Lenderson. During the First World War, the soldiers on both sides of the trenches, in Christmas one Christmas is a famous story, but they just came out of the trenches and hugged each other, kissed each other, and, you know, singing songs together kind of thing. That was a First World War, which is a long time before 1930s, but in the 30s when I was, I don't know, five, six, seven years old. My mother used to tell me this story like a beautiful story. And I thought it was so beautiful. I just thought, why didn't they just stay as friends instead of fighting them?”
2007-06-10 · Desert Island Discs · Yoko Ono · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, yes, I do. But it's sort of a painful memory in a way Because of all the things that happened, it influenced my thinking as well, that things can change so suddenly. I remember one beautiful party and a Usually had a fortune teller or something, just to amuse the guests. And so my cousin, who was a person who would inherit all of Yasuda's fortune or somehow. So he just showed his hand to the fortune teller. The fortune teller said, you're going to lose everything. And everybody just laughed and said, well, how stupid because when Yasuda losed everything, that is when Japan would lose everything. and that would never happen. And of course, it happened.”
2007-06-10 · Desert Island Discs · Yoko Ono · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's amazing when you think about it because when I was a backet in the countryside, most kids were evacuated. The time was very difficult. We didn't have enough food and the war was going on and there were planes coming and bombing places and everything. And my mother was saying, you know, you have to write about this. Just think about writing because you're a good writer. And somehow I think it taught me to be objective about the situation. And that way of thinking about life probably made it easier for me to cope with a situation where the whole world was against me or something because this is a very interesting situation. I better write about it or I better put in my songs or, you know, whatever.”
2007-06-10 · Desert Island Discs · Yoko Ono · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Signature. I feel so much, you know, about this song. Yes, I regret nothing too. I don't really feel like I had a choice always. I feel that I just managed to survive.”
2007-06-10 · Desert Island Discs · Yoko Ono · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, the reason is because first of all my dad always told me that I was so small, well I was small even for his Japanese actually and feisty like a Japanese it is pia and whenever I was down I listened this song in my mind and just felt better.”
2007-06-10 · Desert Island Discs · Yoko Ono · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Have been difficult. Well, yes, but I didn't really feel that way at the time. The reason being that I was so independent and so myself before I met John, and I kind of felt good about relaxing a little, and I was there loving him, that's all.”
2007-06-10 · Desert Island Discs · Yoko Ono · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, it was hurtful in a way, but I had John beside me which was it did help, and also it seemed almost as if those things were happening in a distance. So O said out there didn't seem to hurt that much.”
2007-06-10 · Desert Island Discs · Yoko Ono · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think he was very kind to say that, but it's true. You know, your life is not to appease people but to be yourself. My mother was always telling me that. And that's what I was, I was just being myself. I was always like that. It's how I was brought up, I think.”
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