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I lead a charmed life.
You have to leave room in life to dream.
Children don't have to be raised. They'll grow.
As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar.
Music has been my playmate, my lover, and my crying towel.
You have to sniff out joy. Keep your nose to the joy trail.
All the lights on Broadway don't amount to an acre of green.
For me, the hip word is 'mutate.' We're ripening all the time.
I work closely with the printer to get the final print the way I want it.
It was a black and white only computer at the time, but it kept me fascinated.
I was playing with sound like I would have played with pots and pans as a kid.
All kids, I think, are creative, but they get it pounded out of them in school.
There is so much joy in native culture but so much poverty. It's very disturbing.
The key is in remaining just aloof enough from a painting so that you know when to stop.
I'm told I was born in Canada, but I was adopted, and I grew up in Maine and Massachusetts.
By looking at the questions the kids are asking, we learn the scope of what needs to be done.
My first Macintosh was a 128k machine which I upgraded to 512k the minute it became possible.
That is, an artist who creates lots of work probably experiences prolific days and slower days.
The time I save setting up and cleaning up probably balances out by the time I spend on output.
The artistic process in digital art is very much the same as for making other kinds of paintings.
Sixteen million colors in your palette are hard for any artist, especially a beginner, to turn down.
Some people say I was very brave, but I really just didn't know any better. All I had was my originality.
Once an artist explores the vast variety of tools and features available on the great programs, we're hooked.
He's a Catholic, a Hindy, an atheist, a Chein, a Buddhist, a Baptist and a Jew, and he knows, he shouldn't kill.
Digital art software has empowered both the painterly side of photographers, and the photographer side of painters.
When I first got famous in the '60s, I got a little too famous, and in order to escape showbusiness, I moved to Hawaii.
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.
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.
Every time somebody makes an Indian movie...Cher on a horse with a headdress and a miniskirt...the fashion industry cashes in.
I'm trying to entice people, and sometimes my information is very hard hitting. So I've always wanted to have a soft approach.
All my first albums, they're full of heart and emotion, and the songs are wonderful, but they wouldn't have been the takes I would have chosen.
We allow each other so little enjoyment or even tolerance for our individualities, our uniquenesses, and yet to me, that's what it's all about.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Instead of kids just hearing about beads and baskets and fringe, and about what 'was' and 'were,' we present Native American culture as a living contemporary culture.
I was using computers for music in the '70s, '80s and '90s, and people didn't get it. They thought you should only use computers for your taxes and making pie charts.
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.
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.
I put all my time into Indian rights, and I think this is something I know something about, and I think that my time is best spent insofar as my political views are concerned.
I was an infant when I was living in Canada, but when I was adopted, I was a baby, so I grew up in Maine and Massachusetts, and I returned to Saskatchewan as - in my late teens.
I see myself as having three families: my birth family, the family that raised me, and my Cree family, who I was reunited with in my late teens, so I consider myself to be lucky.
When somebody says, 'Oh, Buffy, you're such a warrior for peace', I stop them and say, 'No, I'm not really a warrior for peace. What I promote is alternative conflict resolution'.
I didn't get into the music business because somebody made me take piano lessons, you know. I got into music because I was a natural writer and had a lot of curiosity about sound.
Another time factor is output: proofing and printing. That is, getting your work out of the computer and onto paper and having it satisfy you. It can be time consuming and expensive.
I was very unhappy when I used to record and things wouldn't turn out the way I would want to, because I was being such a nice girl. I wouldn't complain when things were going wrong.
The input of Idle No More has been a lightning rod for people who were already thinking this way. We are reaching clarities on bigger issues like fracking and GMOs and climate change.
I think that most Americans feel that the Indians lost because of fair fights and superior odds and superior weaponry. That's because that's the only side of the story that's been told.
If I'm interrupted, it's just a minor inconvenience, but not a disaster, because it's easy to get back where I was: that is, the paint has not changed consistency; the light has not moved.