Buffy Sainte-Marie Quotes - Page 2

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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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  People, Trying, Hitting

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

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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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  Kids, Sound, Pot

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• 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.

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  Light, Consistency, Easy

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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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  Song, Native American, Issues

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

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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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  Song, Player, Guitar

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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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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  Creating, Imagination, Groups

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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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  Photography, Art, Digital

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

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  Black And White, Computer, Fascinated

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

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  Art, Digital, Painting

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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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  Song, Hard Work, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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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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  Teacher, Philosophy, Careers

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Another time factor is output: proofing and printing. That is, getting your work out of the computer and onto paper and having it satisfy you. It can be time consuming and expensive.

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  Work Out, Paper, Computer

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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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  Drawing, Pieces, Stylist

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

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  Artist, Color, Beginners

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• I work closely with the printer to get the final print the way I want it.

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  Finals, Want, Way

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• As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar...Music has been my playmate, my lover, and my crying towel...This song ("Until It's Time for You To Go") popped into my head while I was falling in love with someone I knew couldn't stay with me. The words are about honesty and freedom inside the heart.

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  Song, Falling In Love, Honesty

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• My first Macintosh was a 128k machine which I upgraded to 512k the minute it became possible.

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  Machines, Firsts, Minutes

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• That is, an artist who creates lots of work probably experiences prolific days and slower days.

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  Artist

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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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  Phones, Hands, House

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

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  Balance, Cleaning, Output

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• 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.

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  Fall, Artist, Two

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• 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.

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  Progress, Manipulation, Tools

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