Buffy Sainte-Marie Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“You have to sniff out joy. Keep your nose to the joy trail.”
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“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.”
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“As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar.”
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“There is an exercise I teach at colleges: Get yourself a canvas and a bunch of acrylics and go into a very dimly lighted room. Dip a brush into one of the colors, slap it on the canvas, don't look, close your eyes, make a painting, don't look, turn the lights on and see what you've got. I think this releases people from the editor in their life that's always standing over their shoulder saying, "Oh, you don't have any talent; who do you think you are?"”
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“Music has been my playmate, my lover, and my crying towel.”
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“Take a bunch of little kids to the beach and they all make art. Adults are too stupid to call it art, but it is art. They'll use their imaginations, make drama, make up characters, make pictures in the sand, they'll make up songs that no one's ever heard before. All kids, I think, are creative, but they get it pounded out of them in school.”
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“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.”
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“I sang a song in Hindi; nobody even knew what that was. Singing about Native American issues, nobody did that. I had no reason to want to copy anybody else. All I had was my originality.”
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“Digital art software has empowered both the painterly side of photographers, and the photographer side of painters.”
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“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.”
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“The key is in remaining just aloof enough from a painting so that you know when to stop.”
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“There is so much joy in native culture but so much poverty. It's very disturbing.”
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“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.”
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“Every time somebody makes an Indian movie...Cher on a horse with a headdress and a miniskirt...the fashion industry cashes in.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“I'm trying to entice people, and sometimes my information is very hard hitting. So I've always wanted to have a soft approach.”
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“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.”
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“I really work hard to shape the song so that it's attractive... You don't want to give people the information in an enema.”
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“All kids, I think, are creative, but they get it pounded out of them in school.”
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“I was playing with sound like I would have played with pots and pans as a kid.”
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“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.”
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“Some people say I was very brave, but I really just didn't know any better. All I had was my originality.”
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“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.”
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“Grab a guitar, put some kind of strings on it, a banjo string, then a violin string, then a guitar string, tune it any way you want, and make some noise, and see what you get. And work on it until you get something that you think is interesting. That's all there is to art for me.”
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“What can government do? They can listen to their own people. But I'll tell you what citizens can do, when we elect one of these people - whether we think it's a good guy or a bozo - you got to stay on the case. You don't vote and go home and give them the keys to the car, he'll drive you right off a cliff. You have to help people to stay honest.”
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“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.”
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“Children don't have to be raised. They'll grow.”
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“When we draw on the tablet, the drawing shows up on the computer screen. If we have chosen to tell the computer that the stylist is to behave like a piece of chalk, or a pen, or a wet brush, it will.”
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“The paintings are transferred from my computer to a disk, and I can hand it to the printer this way; or I can modem the painting to the printer over the phone lines from my house in Hawaii.”
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