Buffy Sainte-Marie

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

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

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

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

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

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

Take a bunch of little kids to the beach and they all make art. Adults are too stupid to call it art,…

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

You have to leave room in life to dream.

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

I feel sorry for people of good heart who have never had a chance to learn the realities of Native American everything…

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

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

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

Once an artist explores the vast variety of tools and features available on the great programs, we're hooked.

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

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

I really work hard to shape the song so that it's attractive... You don't want to give people the information in an…

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

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

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

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

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

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

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

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

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

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…

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

By looking at the questions the kids are asking, we learn the scope of what needs to be done.

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

Some of my songs are like dreams, and when you go to sleep at night you don't know if you're gonna have…

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

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

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

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

I had no reason to want to copy anybody else. What I wanted to give audiences for the few minutes that I…

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

But in the old days, visual artists used to fall into two distinct categories: those of us who created images with cameras…

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar.

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

We also have the option of scanning in an image from outside the computer... a photo, or a sketch done with traditional…

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

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

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

I had a teacher's degree and a degree in Oriental Philosophy from the University of Massachusetts. I thought I was going to…

— Buffy Sainte-Marie