Buffy Sainte Marie Quotes

Every time people ask me, 'How do we solve this problem or that problem in your opinion?' it's always the same answer: Stay calm and decolonize.

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.

I carry a picture of Buffy Sainte-Marie in my wallet and I’m not even Catholic.

The key is in remaining just aloof enough from a painting so that you know when to stop.

You have to leave room in life to dream.

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

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?

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.

That is, an artist who creates lots of work probably experiences prolific days and slower days.

Their minds rustle with million dollar bills You say Silver burns a hole in your pocket And Gold burns a hole in your soul Well, uranium burns a hole in forever It just gets out of control.

Before Charlie knew it, he was sharing a joint with the lead singer of the Raiders, Mark Lindsay, hobnobbing with Mike Nesmith of the Monkees and Buffy Sainte-Marie, and jamming on guitar with Neil Young. Neil fucking Young!

At one point in this biography, I started a sentence with the words "tearing down" and in the editing process, she crossed them out and provided this alternative "creating in spite of and beyond." That simple reframing blew my mind. I actually felt a seismic shift in my brain and in my body . And I know I will think of this forever and ever. My own language has a tendency to be rooted in destruction. I want to pull things apart and examine them. While her language is rooted in possibility, a desire to grow, and explore, and persuade. This is just one way she models how to to thrive.

Angry is a way for power holders To dismiss and deligitmize activism and protest

The pecking order comes from the barnyard