Buffy Sainte-Marie Quotes

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

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.

As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar.

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

The key is in remaining just aloof enough from a painting so that you know when to stop.

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.

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

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

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.

You have to leave room in life to dream.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

All the lights on Broadway don't amount to an acre of green.

Instead of kids just hearing about beads and baskets and fringe, and about what 'was' and 'were,' we present Native American culture as a living contemporary culture.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Digital art software has empowered both the painterly side of photographers, and the photographer side of painters.

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

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

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

I was using computers for music in the '70s, '80s and '90s, and people didn't get it. They thought you should only use computers for your taxes and making pie charts.