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I have a more direct avenue to expression as an artist than I ever would as a politician.
Serj Tankian
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Serj Tankian
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: August 21
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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'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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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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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 like African music, and I'm a huge Ravi Shankar fan.
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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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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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People always ask me 'do you think there should be more bands doing political music?' and I say 'absolutely not.'
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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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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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Touring and putting out records is fun and cool, but I've been doing it for a long time.
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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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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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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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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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Spirit moves through all things.
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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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With 'Elect the Dead,' I learned how to make a rock record without a rock band and make the rock record I've always wanted to make.
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We have the power to change our lives, and the world around us.
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