Serj Tankian quotes - page 2

Sometimes a good love song can change the world and create positive energy more than any political song can. (Serj Tankian)
I've got my own studio, and I've got four- to five-hundred unreleased tracks. I've got stuff that's electronic, orchestral, jazz, I've got rock, I've got metal, you know, I don't have polka. View quote
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When I was younger, I was listening to a lot of Armenian music, you know, revolutionary music about freedom and protest. In the 70s I was listening to soul and the Bee Gees and ABBA, and funk. View quote
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In the last few years I've been listening to jazz more than anything else. I listen to a lot of world music and experimental here and there. View quote
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The most important thing about music that I've learned after all this time is that to me, it's a way of reaching the truth. View quote
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I'm a huge Beatles fan, but I've only really gotten into them as an adult. View quote
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With rock music, the amount of power that you can generate, the intensity behind the intentions of your lyrics that you can really reflect through rock music - you can't do that in jazz. You can't do that with classical. View quote
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I think I might write a book. I like writing. People have asked me if I would get into politics, but I think I feel a lot more effective being a representative of truth through the arts. View quote
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My two interests are spirituality and politics. I would mesh them in some way; maybe try to figure out the politics of spirituality, or the spirituality of politics. Or maybe come up with this really crazy naive solution for the end of civilization. View quote
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Touring and putting out records is fun and cool, but I've been doing it for a long time. View quote
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If you allow for a purely capitalistic society, without any type of regulation at all, you will get one monopoly that will eat all of the smaller fish and own everything, and then you'll have zero capitalism, zero competition - it would just be one giant company. (Serj Tankian)
As long as people are living their truth or their vision, whether they're activists or not, that's the important thing. View quote
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I believe very firmly that indigenous populations had a really good, intuitive understanding of why we're here. And we're trying to gain that same understanding through psychology and intellect in modern civilization. View quote
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I'd rather let the music speak for itself. View quote
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I've always worked on all different types of music, some with specific project goals and deadlines and some not. Sometimes I would write a piece of music that is almost like a film score or weird electro pieces, wherever the muse took me, and I still do that. View quote
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With most of the songs and music that I've composed, irrespective of the myriad videos made, I was always careful not to overly define the experience, leaving room for people to internalize things for themselves, making their experience more integral. View quote
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People always ask me 'do you think there should be more bands doing political music?' and I say 'absolutely not.' View quote
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People think our music's very aggressive or angry or whatever, and it's just the opposite, really... I like laughing. And I like being really calm before a show, and smiley. View quote
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I hate injustice, and I can't help but speak against it. But I don't want to get involved in politics. View quote
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I think that the memory of Armenia's genocide opened my eyes at an early age to the existence of political cynicism. View quote
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Harout Pamboukjian is one of the biggest Armenian folk singers in the world. In the '70s, he was making these records that were really Zeppelin-influenced. (Serj Tankian)
We're addicted to this concept of civilization - we can't imagine living outside of it because we've had it for 10,000 years, all of what we call history. But according to archaeologists, humanity has been on this planet for millions of years in indigenous form. View quote
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With 'Elect the Dead,' I learned how to make a rock record without a rock band and make the rock record I've always wanted to make. View quote
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I've always tried to listen to a lot of different music from around the world. View quote
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'Elect the Dead' is a rock record that takes you on a journey with different types of genres integrated, different lyrical themes digested, and many fun and colorful moments to enjoy. View quote
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