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.

Buffy Sainte-Marie in 1968

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)

Take heart and take care of your link with Life

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)

External links

• Official website
• Buffy Sainte-Marie interviewed on the Pop Chronicles (1969)
• Encyclopedic article on Buffy Sainte-Marie on Wikipedia
• Media related to Buffy Sainte-Marie on Wikimedia Commons