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Indie Music Is 'it' Now. It's Kind Of A Revolution To The Music: 1980s, 1990s Music Was Getting Very Sanitized; They Were Complying With The Music Industry. Music Was Getting More And More Dead In A Way. Now, Because Of The Social Climate That's Very Severe, The Artists Are Compelled To Start Being Real. It's Really Great That Indie Music Is Now.

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Indie Music Is 'it'

Yoko Ono

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Indie Music Is 'it' Now. It's Kind Of A Revolution To The Music: 1980s, 1990s Music Was Getting Very Sanitized; They Were Complying With The Music Industry. Music Was Getting More And More Dead In A Way. Now, Because Of The Social Climate That's Very Severe, The Artists Are Compelled To Start Being Real. It's Really Great That Indie Music Is Now.

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I Did Not Break Up The Beatles. You Can't Have It Both Ways. If You're Going To Blame Me For Breaking The Beatles Up, You Should Be Thankful That I Made Them Into Myth Rather Than A Crumbling Group.

It's A Waste Of Time To Think That If You Colored A Painting Red What Might Have Happened If You Painted It Black.

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Stand In The Evening Light Until You Become Transparent Or Until You Fall Asleep.

I Feel Sad That He's Just A Voice Now.

When I Was 4 Years Old My Mother Put Me Into An Early Music Education School. That's Where They Taught You Perfect Pitch And Harmony And How To Write Music And All That. At That Time, One Of The Homeworks Was To Listen To All The Sounds And The Noise Of A Day And Transfer That Into Musical Notes.

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Keep Going Until Your Efforts Start To Make Things Better In Your Hometown.

Sometimes The Father Feels Pushed Out Because Of The Connection Between The Mother And The Child.

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The First Idea, The First Art Piece I Ever Did, Was When I Was Four. I Cut The Seed Of A Pear In Half And The Seed Of An Apple In Half In Put Those Two Halves Together And Planted The Seed, Hoping A Very Strange Tree Might Grow. And I Never Stopped.

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I Am The Type Of Person Who Would Do Something Thoroughly If Someone Said, "i Don't Think You Can Do It." I Am Extremely Rebellious. I Have This Strong, Defiant Spirit.

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Money Is Not Everything. We Don't Need Billions And Trillions Of Dollars.

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It's Better That You're Criticized Than Complimented As A Person.

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You Can't Dance If You Got Too Much Muck In Your Head.

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Hide Until Everybody Goes Home. Hide Until Everybody Forgets About You. Hide Until Everybody Dies.

All I’m Saying Is That Perhaps We Can Make A Revolution Without Violence.

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Nobody's Life Is A Bed Of Roses. We All Have Crosses To Bear And We All Just Do Our Best.

The Male Society Is Letting The Men Think Of The Women As Something Pretty And Soft And That Kind Of Thing. So I Just Wanted To Show What We Were. Women Are The Ones Who Actually Created The Human Race. I Mean Without Us Bringing Up The New Generation, There Wouldn't Be A Human Race.

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We’ve Been Filled With Great Treasure For One Purpose: To Be Spilled.

We Created A Thing Called Culture And Civilization, And Now We're About To Lose It Because We're Trying To Destroy Everything. And I Kind Of Miss It. I Miss Culture And Civilization.

Everyone Is An Artist And A Genius, I Think. If We Don't Choose To Limit Ourselves Then We Are Totally Accomplished.

What Is Beauty? It's What You Love.

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Being Alone Is Very Difficult.

I Thank Pussy Riot For Standing Firmly In Their Belief For Freedom Of Expression, And Making All Women Of The World Proud To Be Women.

Perhaps One Feels More Pain When Parents Are There. It's Like When You're Hungry, You Know, It's Worse To Get A Symbol Of A Cheeseburger Than No Cheeseburger At All. It Doesn't Do You Any Good, You Know.

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You're Filled With So Much Life. Is There Any Reason Why All Of Us Are Not Full Of Life?

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.

Beatles Was 20th-century Folksong In The Framework Of Capitalism; They Couldn't Do Anything Different If They Wanted To Communicate Within That Framework.

Spring Passes And One Remembers One's Innocence.

Marriage Is A Gamble, Let's Be Honest.

The Only Instrument I Can Play Is Piano. Whenever I Make Songs At Home, I Play The Piano And Make Them On The Piano.

We Don't Live By Just Sleeping And Eating. We Need Pride And Dignity In Our Lives. Work Gives You That.

We Are Never Alone. We Are All Aspects Of One Great Being. No Matter How Far Apart We Are, The Air Links Us.

All Wishes Create An Upswing Line When It Is Manifested. Therefore, Together, It Becomes An Incredible Upswing Of Power, Whatever You Wished. Of Course, The More High Level Wishes, Which Covers The Whole Human Race Is Stronger Than Wishing For Getting Ice Cream For Your Dessert!

There's Nothing Bad About Feminism. We Have To Help Each Other, Because There's A Lot Of Women In The World Who Are Suffering Because The Fact Is We're Not Equal. It's As Plain As That. It's Still A Men's World. I Don't Know. We'll Go On With It.

All I Can Say Is, It's Not Very Easy For A Woman To Be Associated With The Beatles.

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I'm A Politician. Politics Is Just A Convenience For Our Life And We Just Have To Create A Beautiful World Together That Would Be Very Convenient For Us And Just Enjoyable.

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I Thought Art Was A Verb, Rather Than A Noun.

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