Yoko Quotes

We live in a country where John Lennon takes eight bullets, Yoko Ono is walking right beside him and not one hits her. Explain that to me!

(on reconciling with Yoko in 1975, after more than a year apart) The separation didn`t work out.

I`ve made two `discoveries` in my life: Paul McCartney and Yoko Ono. I think that`s a pretty damned good choice.

Someone like John would want to end the Beatle period and start the Yoko period. He wouldn`t like either to interfere with the other.

We were pretty good mates until the Beatles started to split up and Yoko came into it. It was more like old army buddies splitting up on account of wedding bells.

I don`t take any notice of her. She`s John`s wife so I have to respect her for that, but I don`t think she`s the brightest of buttons. She`s said some particularly daft things in her time. Her life is dedicated to putting me down but I attempt very strongly not to put her down. (About Yoko Ono)

I never really got on that well with Yoko anyway. Strangely enough, I only started to get to know her after John`s death.

I thought she was a cold woman. I think that`s wrong. She`s just the opposite. I think she`s just more determined than most people to be herself. (on his updated feelings about Yoko Ono, 1995)

To keep the record straight, it wasn`t always John and Yoko. We`ve all accused one another of various business things; we tend to be pretty paranoid by now, as you can imagine. There`s a lot of money involved.

Most of the fans of John Lennon and maybe John and Yoko are younger than me.

I grew up in Greenwich Village. Dad was friends with John Lennon and Yoko Ono.

The (computers) need at least three months to get to know each other before an animator goes anywhere near them, ... I learned that computers are as human as the rest of us. Our technical director named all the machines after different bands. The four Macs in the edit suite were named after the Beatles; fair enough, I was John. But then we needed a fifth so he named it Yoko, and they all stopped talking to each other.