Buffy Sainte-Marie
Buffy Sainte-Marie
Buffy Sainte-Marie, OCis a Native Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, composer, visual artist, educator, pacifist, and social activist. Throughout her career in all of these areas, her work has focused on issues of Indigenous peoples of the Americas. Her singing and writing repertoire also includes subjects of love, war, religion, and mysticism...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWorld Music Singer
Date of Birth20 February 1941
CountryUnited States of America
Buffy Sainte-Marie quotes about
home thinking keys
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.
drawing pieces stylist
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.
firsts machines macintosh
My first Macintosh was a 128k machine which I upgraded to 512k the minute it became possible.
art digital painting
The artistic process in digital art is very much the same as for making other kinds of paintings.
artist color sixteen
Sixteen million colors in your palette are hard for any artist, especially a beginner, to turn down.
way finals want
I work closely with the printer to get the final print the way I want it.
artist
That is, an artist who creates lots of work probably experiences prolific days and slower days.
song hard-work giving
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.
people trying hitting
I'm trying to entice people, and sometimes my information is very hard hitting. So I've always wanted to have a soft approach.
hands phones house
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.
song falling-in-love honesty
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.
unique careers giving
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.
kids school thinking
All kids, I think, are creative, but they get it pounded out of them in school.
kids sound pot
I was playing with sound like I would have played with pots and pans as a kid.