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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.

Buffy Sainte-Marie

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Buffy Sainte-Marie
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: February 20
Actor
Composer
Record Producer
Singer-Songwriter
Visual Artist
Writer
Buffy St. Marie
Beverly Sainte-Marie
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Dreams
Sleep
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Night
Dream
Like
Gonna

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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.
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The key is in remaining just aloof enough from a painting so that you know when to stop.
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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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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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All the lights on Broadway don't amount to an acre of green.
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The artistic process in digital art is very much the same as for making other kinds of paintings.
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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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You have to leave room in life to dream.
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I feel sorry for people of good heart who have never had a chance to learn the realities of Native American everything - not just our history but the sweetness and the beauty and the reasons why were so close to Mother Earth.
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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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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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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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By looking at the questions the kids are asking, we learn the scope of what needs to be done.
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That is, an artist who creates lots of work probably experiences prolific days and slower days.
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I work closely with the printer to get the final print the way I want it.
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There is so much joy in native culture but so much poverty. It's very disturbing.
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All kids, I think, are creative, but they get it pounded out of them in school.
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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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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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