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All the lights on Broadway don't amount to an acre of green.
Buffy Sainte-Marie
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Buffy Sainte-Marie
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: February 20
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Buffy St. Marie
Beverly Sainte-Marie
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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.
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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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Children don't have to be raised. They'll grow.
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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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There is so much joy in native culture but so much poverty. It's very disturbing.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Some people say I was very brave, but I really just didn't know any better. All I had was my originality.
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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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By looking at the questions the kids are asking, we learn the scope of what needs to be done.
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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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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.
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Music has been my playmate, my lover, and my crying towel.
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He's a Catholic, a Hindy, an atheist, a Chein, a Buddhist, a Baptist and a Jew, and he knows, he shouldn't kill.
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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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I work closely with the printer to get the final print the way I want it.
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