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Awareness in our society has flipped all types of injustice on its head.
Serj Tankian
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Serj Tankian
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: August 21
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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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In terms of political things, I think it's important to be more direct in terms of political statements. I think in terms of philosophical and things that you plant things and see them grow lyrically or musically, it's okay to be subtle.
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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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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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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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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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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 think as consumers Europeans are a lot more artist loyal irrespective of the genre of music or the type of project or the collaborative effort, and Americans are more media-loyal, because they need to be fed that media to know what's going on, because we're so inundated with promotion and marketing and everything that's going on - advertising.
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Day is just a collection of hours.
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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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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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It's probably a combination of personal and non-personal matters that have led us to where we are musically.
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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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Sometimes a good love song can change the world and create positive energy more than any political song can.
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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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Political statements are usually more direct, and it works with the upbeat music as well, for some reason, the directness of your statements.
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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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