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Sometimes a good love song can change the world and create positive energy more than any political song can.
Serj Tankian
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Serj Tankian
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: August 21
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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.
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Awareness in our society has flipped all types of injustice on its head.
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I don't want to spend all my time working as an activist. I don't get satisfaction out of it. I'd rather be doing something else. I'm a musician.
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Day is just a collection of hours.
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We [americans] self-regulate ourselves, we self-censor ourselves a lot in this country instead of having someone else censor us so we can blame them. That's not good, either.
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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.
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I really feel like civilisation's already over. It's not ending but it's already done. We're all addicted to the concept that humanity equals civilisation and that's not the case. We need a global conversation to be able to decipher how we can live from this point forward. We have to redefine our relationship with our environment.
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I have a more direct avenue to expression as an artist than I ever would as a politician.
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People get so attached to a position which they identify themselves with that they just spurt it out, but they can't really give you a viable reason why they feel that way.
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If you're using live bass versus orchestral bass, you've got to make sure that you're not stepping on the toes of the other elements, so you've got to balance it out.
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I don't find most people to be as politically engaged as I am. I do find people that appreciate eye-opening events and words, and who want to learn more about what's going on. I do find people with a lot of opinions. And I get a lot of people who come up to me and give us props for what we do.
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Sometimes it's better to have a benign dictator than a dumb democracy, to be honest.
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Touring and putting out records is fun and cool, but I've been doing it for a long time.
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I'm a huge Beatles fan, but I've only really gotten into them as an adult.
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It's probably a combination of personal and non-personal matters that have led us to where we are musically.
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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.
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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.
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I think every artist should follow their vision, their hearts is what they need to reveal, not something that society is looking out for.
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