88 Quotes by Buffy Sainte-Marie

Music has been my playmate, my lover, and my crying towel.

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.

You have to sniff out joy. Keep your nose to the joy trail.

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.

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.

There is so much joy in native culture but so much poverty. It’s very disturbing.

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.

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.

Some people say I was very brave, but I really just didn’t know any better. All I had was my originality.