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
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.
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.
song beach art
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.
song native-american issues
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.
song player guitar
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.
dream song sleep
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.
song children cutting
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.
progress done manipulation
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.
balance cleaning output
The time I save setting up and cleaning up probably balances out by the time I spend on output.
fall artist two
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.
fashion horse cash
Every time somebody makes an Indian movie...Cher on a horse with a headdress and a miniskirt...the fashion industry cashes in.
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 sound pot
I was playing with sound like I would have played with pots and pans as a kid.
kids school thinking
All kids, I think, are creative, but they get it pounded out of them in school.