Latest Buffy Sainte-Marie Quotes from Interviews

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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.

  Buffy Sainte-Marie

  Art, Thinking, Guitar

• 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?"

  Buffy Sainte-Marie

  Eye, Exercise, College

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• 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.

  Buffy Sainte-Marie

  Song, Beach, Art

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• 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.

  Buffy Sainte-Marie

  Song, Native American, Issues

  "The Fierce, Childlike Creativity of Buffy Sainte-Marie". Interview with Jacob Blickenstaff, www.motherjones.com. July 9, 2015.

• 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.

  Buffy Sainte-Marie

  Hate, Government, White

  "The Fierce, Childlike Creativity of Buffy Sainte-Marie". Interview with Jacob Blickenstaff, www.motherjones.com. July 9, 2015.

• 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.

  Buffy Sainte-Marie

  Mother, Sorry, Native American

  "The Fierce, Childlike Creativity of Buffy Sainte-Marie". Interview with Jacob Blickenstaff, www.motherjones.com. July 9, 2015.

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

  Buffy Sainte-Marie

  Joy, Culture, Poverty

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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

  Buffy Sainte-Marie

  Fashion, Horse, Cash

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• 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.

  Buffy Sainte-Marie

  Piano, Firsts, First Time

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• 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.

  Buffy Sainte-Marie

  Song, Children, Cutting

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• 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.

  Buffy Sainte-Marie

  Dream, Song, Sleep

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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

  Buffy Sainte-Marie

  People, Trying, Hitting

  "The Fierce, Childlike Creativity of Buffy Sainte-Marie". Interview with Jacob Blickenstaff, www.motherjones.com. July 9, 2015.

• 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.

  Buffy Sainte-Marie

  Song, Hard Work, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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

  Buffy Sainte-Marie

  School, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• 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.

  Buffy Sainte-Marie

  Unique, Careers, Giving

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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

  Buffy Sainte-Marie

  Kids, Sound, Pot

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• Some people say I was very brave, but I really just didn't know any better. All I had was my originality.

  Buffy Sainte-Marie

  People, Brave, Originality

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• 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.

  Buffy Sainte-Marie

  Teacher, Philosophy, Careers

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• 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.

  Buffy Sainte-Marie

  Song, Player, Guitar

  Source: www.motherjones.com