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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.
Serj Tankian
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Serj Tankian
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: August 21
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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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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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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 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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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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Life is that perfect fine line between ironies.
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Science fails to recognize the single most potent element of human existence...faith.
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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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Touring and putting out records is fun and cool, but I've been doing it for a long time.
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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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Sometimes it's better to have a benign dictator than a dumb democracy, to be honest.
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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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I like African music, and I'm a huge Ravi Shankar fan.
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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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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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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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We have the power to change our lives, and the world around us.
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In America, there's more of the question, should music be political or should it just be for entertainment purposes, whereas around the world that's not even an issue. I think people just assume that music should be everything.
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