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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.

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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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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I was playing with sound like I would have played with pots and pans as a kid.
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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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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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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.
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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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As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar.
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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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Grab a guitar, put some kind of strings on it, a banjo string, then a violin string, then a guitar string, tune it any way you want, and make some noise, and see what you get. And work on it until you get something that you think is interesting. That's all there is to art for me.
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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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Sixteen million colors in your palette are hard for any artist, especially a beginner, to turn down.
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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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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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All kids, I think, are creative, but they get it pounded out of them in school.
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There is so much joy in native culture but so much poverty. It's very disturbing.
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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.
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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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Music has been my playmate, my lover, and my crying towel.
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That is, an artist who creates lots of work probably experiences prolific days and slower days.
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