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Sometimes a good love song can change the world and create positive energy more than any political song can.

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Serj Tankian
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: August 21
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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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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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The living ideas of the dead are more powerful and effective than the dead ideas of the living.
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People always ask me 'do you think there should be more bands doing political music?' and I say 'absolutely not.'
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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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The next song I wrote in Paris years ago in a dream. So I didn't really write it, the universe wrote it. And that's what I believe about music, I believe it belongs to the universe, it comes from there and it's this beautiful energy that we share that transcends normal flash existence and that we inspire each other through.
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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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As an artist, you never want to write the same song again, you always want to challenge yourself to writing in a different way.
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I like African music, and I'm a huge Ravi Shankar fan.
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Day is just a collection of hours.
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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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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.
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Science fails to recognize the single most potent element of human existence...faith.
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A lot of pop music is based on trying to make people remember it so that they'll buy it. To me, it was not about that.
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Life is that perfect fine line between ironies.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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The best way to do that is to pick up a new instrument or an instrument that you don't typically write on and see where it takes you. Whether it's using an acoustic guitar, or piano, or electronics as tools, all of these lead to creating different types of songs and I used all of these methods for this record.
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