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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.

Serj Tankian

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Serj Tankian
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: August 21
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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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As long as people are living their truth or their vision, whether they're activists or not, that's the important thing.
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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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I've always thought of the sky as, like, an open canvas. When I was a kid and I looked at the sky, I always remember being able to daydream, just looking at the sky, being creative, being able to design things. What would happen if we had no sky? Where would we be? Well, obviously, scientifically, without an atmosphere, we'd all be dead.
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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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Touring and putting out records is fun and cool, but I've been doing it for a long time.
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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 think music has the ability to inspire people and to change hearts, and the heart has the power to change the mind, and the mind has the power to change the world.
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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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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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The living ideas of the dead are more powerful and effective than the dead ideas of the living.
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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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Science fails to recognize the single most potent element of human existence...faith.
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