Buffy Sainte-Marie Quotes

I had no reason to want to copy anybody else. What I wanted to give audiences for the few minutes that I thought my career would last was something unique.

Music has been my playmate, my lover, and my crying towel.

Digital imaging allows both groups to rise above the limitations of mess and clutter and mechanics, and apply our talents to creating images limited only by our imaginations.

Children don't have to be raised. They'll grow.

I always had wished somebody else would sing my songs, but there wasn't anybody who knew them, so I sang them myself and eventually became a better singer and guitar player.

I'm trying to entice people, and sometimes my information is very hard hitting. So I've always wanted to have a soft approach.

People sometimes ask me, because of the blacklisting, "Do you hate the government? Don't you hate white people?" No, it's greed that's the problem.

I had a teacher's degree and a degree in Oriental Philosophy from the University of Massachusetts. I thought I was going to India to study but all of a sudden, I had a career in music. It really surprised me.

The artistic process in digital art is very much the same as for making other kinds of paintings.

Every time somebody makes an Indian movie ... Cher on a horse with a headdress and a miniskirt ... the fashion industry cashes in.

We also have the option of scanning in an image from outside the computer ... a photo, or a sketch done with traditional tools; and we can then paint, manipulate, process, change, and further develop the image within the computer, watching our progress on the monitor.

I feel sorry for people of good heart who have never had a chance to learn the realities of Native American everything - not just our history but the sweetness and the beauty and the reasons why were so close to Mother Earth.

Better to find out for yourself

Some of my songs are like dreams, and when you go to sleep at night you don't know if you're gonna have a dream or what you're gonna dream about.

It was a black and white only computer at the time, but it kept me fascinated.

The key is in remaining just aloof enough from a painting so that you know when to stop.

He's a Catholic, a Hindy, an atheist, a Chein, a Buddhist, a Baptist and a Jew, and he knows, he shouldn't kill.

Everybody's creative. We create our songs and our paintings, our families and our children. Every one of us is on the cutting edge of the future.

All kids, I think, are creative, but they get it pounded out of them in school.

I was playing with sound like I would have played with pots and pans as a kid.

You have to sniff out joy. Keep your nose to the joy trail.

If I'm interrupted, it's just a minor inconvenience, but not a disaster, because it's easy to get back where I was: that is, the paint has not changed consistency; the light has not moved.

I didn't know what I was gonna get the first time I sat down at a piano, but I loved it and it became my playmate for life.

Sixteen million colors in your palette are hard for any artist, especially a beginner, to turn down.

As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar.

But in the old days, visual artists used to fall into two distinct categories: those of us who created images with cameras and those of us who applied stuff onto other stuff, with brushes or other tools.

There is so much joy in native culture but so much poverty. It's very disturbing.

Language and culture cannot be separated. Language is vital to understanding our unique cultural perspectives. Language is a tool that is used to explore and experience our cultures and the perspectives that are embedded in our cultures.

The time I save setting up and cleaning up probably balances out by the time I spend on output.