Yoko Ono Quotes

Music was my solace, my refuge.

Music really helps me. It's like a best friend.

We all have movies for times in our lives when we really need something.

I am not patriotic or nationalistic, but the French language is like a country where I take refuge when I have nowhere else to go. It consoles me for everything. For me, the language no longer belongs to the colonialists.

Everyone asks me about why I care about anime and football so much, but that's because anything dark that happened in my life, those two things would make me feel better. I just used to sit in front of the TV and watch football and breathe a sigh of relief. You know what I mean? It's another world. An escape.

Music has the ability to comfort people.

'Safe Harbor' is a state of mind... it's the place - in reality or metaphor - to which one goes in times of trouble or worry. It can be a friendship, marriage, church, garden, beach, poem, prayer, or song.

Music has been my everything since day one. It's been my shoulder to cry on, my rock and my best friend.

At school, I always felt the art room was the place where you could sit and talk. It was a place of solace. I wasn't the best artist at school by a long shot; it was more the understanding and the support that came from that room.

The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

I think for me, home needs to be a sanctuary. I need to feel like I've escaped the day when I get home.

The world at large doesn't always make sense to me, and there are safe havens. Linda Manz in 'Out of the Blue' is one of them.

When I felt upset and lost, music always had the answer.

Music helped me, growing up: it very much felt like a companion and made me less lonely.

The music has a very strong escapist quality to it. In the moment where you feel like you need to escape, or when you are escaping, that's a good time to listen to 'When the Night.'

Snooker is my sanctuary and always has been.

I needed music today. And like always it was there for me.

For whoever is lonely there is a tavern.

Music should probably provide answers in terms of lyrical content, and giving people a sense of togetherness and oneness, as opposed to being alone in their thoughts and dilemmas or regrets or happiness or whatever.

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

I remember, as a child, the confusion of not knowing what this place was where I was supposed to spend the night: it's a disquieting experience for a child. And what I would do was quickly unpack my books and go back to a book I knew well and make sure the same text and the same illustrations were there.

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

I have a shelf of comfort books, which I read when the world closes in on me or something untoward happens.

My family is my sanctuary.

I think that lyrically, 'Safe' is a very positive song: it's very strong; it's about keeping somebody safe and protecting people. I think everybody anywhere in the world can relate to it. I think everybody wants to feel safe; everybody wants to feel protected.