Buffy Sainte-Marie
All the lights on Broadway don't amount to an acre of green.Collection: Peace
Children don't have to be raised. They'll grow.Collection: Children
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.Collection: Hate
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.Collection: Art
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.Collection: Unique
There is an exercise I teach at colleges: Get yourself a canvas and a bunch of acrylics and go into a very dimly lighted room. Dip a brush into one of the colors, slap it on the canvas, don't look, close your eyes, make a painting, don't look, turn the lights on and see what you've got. I think this releases people from the editor in their life that's always standing over their shoulder saying, "Oh, you don't have any talent; who do you think you are?"Collection: Eye
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.Collection: Dream
There is so much joy in native culture but so much poverty. It's very disturbing.Collection: Joy
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.Collection: Piano
Every time somebody makes an Indian movie...Cher on a horse with a headdress and a miniskirt...the fashion industry cashes in.Collection: Fashion
He's a Catholic, a Hindy, an atheist, a Chein, a Buddhist, a Baptist and a Jew, and he knows, he shouldn't kill.Collection: Religious
I'm trying to entice people, and sometimes my information is very hard hitting. So I've always wanted to have a soft approach.Collection: People
I was playing with sound like I would have played with pots and pans as a kid.Collection: Kids
All kids, I think, are creative, but they get it pounded out of them in school.Collection: School
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.Collection: Song
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.Collection: Song
It was a black and white only computer at the time, but it kept me fascinated.Collection: Black And White
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.Collection: Song
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.Collection: Teacher
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.Collection: Song