Buffy Sainte-Marie



Buffy Sainte-Marie (born February 20, 1941) is an Indigenous Canadian-American singer-songwriter, musician, composer, visual artist, educator, pacifist, and social activist.

Quotes


He's five feet two and he's six feet four He fights with missiles and with spears He's all of thirty-one and he's only seventeen He's been a soldier for a thousand years

He's a Catholic, a Hindu, an athiest, a Jain, a Buddhist and a Baptist and a Jew and he knows he shouldn't kill and he knows he always will . . . He's the universal soldier and he really is to blame
 * "Universal Soldier", from It's My Way! (1964)



It ain't money that makes the world go round That's only temporary confusion It ain't governments that make the people strong It's the opposite illusion Look right now and you will see they're only here by the skin of our teeth as it is so take heart and take care of your link with Life

... Life is beautiful if you got the sense to take care of your source of perfection Mother Nature, She's the daughter of God and the source of all protection

Look right now and you will see she's only here by the skin of her teeth as it is so take heart and take care of your link with Life
 * "Carry It On", from Power in the Blood (2015)

Quotes about

 * I always loved Buffy Sainte-Marie. I loved how she would close her eyes when she sang. … She had great movement, and she never hit the mic with her nose! I never got quite as good at it as she was, but I loved that movement.
 * Joni Mitchell Interview (2021)