Art & Creativity Quote by Yoko Ono

Going "with the flow" reads like a shrug, but in Yoko Ono's mouth it's a manifesto disguised as ease. The line stages spontaneity as both method and shield: if any style can enter the music, then no single gatekeeper gets to define what counts as "real" composition, "proper" singing, or even "good taste". Ono has spent decades being treated less like an artist and more like a cultural irritant, her work flattened into meme-level caricature. So this casual openness doubles as a quiet rebuttal to the expectation that she should pick a lane and stay in it.

The subtext is permission. Ono isn't claiming mastery of every genre; she's claiming the right to treat genre as material, not a rulebook. That's consistent with her Fluxus-era roots, where the point was to blur the border between noise and music, instruction and performance, provocation and play. "Any style" is less eclecticism than anti-hierarchy: a refusal to rank rock above avant-garde, melody above scream, or polish above risk.

"That makes it exciting" lands as the real thesis. Excitement here isn't about novelty for its own sake; it's about keeping art alive by keeping it permeable. In a pop culture economy that rewards repeatable branding, Ono frames inconsistency as an aesthetic value. The thrill is in staying unfixed - and in daring listeners to hear freedom where they were taught to hear mistake.