Patrick Stump Yoko Ono never deserved any of the hate she got. Paul McCartney and John Lennon weren’t getting along. – Patrick Stump
Pamela Adlon I took my daughters to see Plastic Ono Band at the Orpheum in L.A. in 2012. It was an amazing experience because she is such a revolutionary artist. Everybody was like, ‘Oh, it’s Yoko, it’s such a joke.’ But it’s no joke what she did, visually and musically. It’s incredible. – Pamela Adlon
Karen Civil This is random, but I thought I was going to have the biggest Backstreet Boys fansite. I’m not even gonna lie: I thought I was gonna marry one of the Backstreet Boys, and I was gonna be his Yoko Ono. – Karen Civil
Jonas Mekas I brought Yoko Ono to New York and gave her her first job there. I was editing a magazine called ‘Film Culture.’ – Jonas Mekas
Denis Leary 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! – Denis Leary
Dawn Richard I would describe my personal style as putting Twiggy and Yoko Ono together. It is hobo with no rules. – Dawn Richard
David Sheff But I sent letters to people in the music business. And one day I got a phone call from somebody and he asked me when I was born and where I was born. And, you know, three or four days later I got a call. Someone said, you know, Yoko Ono wanted to meet me in New York. I got on a plane. And the next day I was having coffee with John Lennon. – David Sheff
Charles Hazlewood People like Aphex Twin, Jason Pierce, Jarvis Cocker and William Orbit are actively showing their interest in a wider field of music. Jarvis and I met on a benefit for an extraordinary man called LaMonte Young, the father of minimalism, who worked with John Cale and shared a loft with Yoko Ono. – Charles Hazlewood
Bez Where John Lennon and Yoko Ono holed up for a week in the Presidential Suite at the Hilton Amsterdam for their ‘Bed-in for Peace’ on March 25, 1969, Firouzeh and I are compelled to do our ‘Bed-in against Fracking’ which has been thrust upon us all undemocratically. – Bez
Alejandro Jodorowsky When I brought ‘El Topo’ to New York, no one understood the picture. But John Lennon understood. John and Yoko Ono, they presented ‘El Topo’ in the United States; they introduced it. – Alejandro Jodorowsky
