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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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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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We have the power to change our lives, and the world around us.
Serj Tankian
It's probably a combination of personal and non-personal matters that have led us to where we are musically.
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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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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 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
To deny a genocide because of convenience and expediency having to do with an illegal war or occupation in Iraq to me, is double hypocritical.
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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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Day is just a collection of hours.
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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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The living ideas of the dead are more powerful and effective than the dead ideas of the living.
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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've got my own studio, and I've got four- to five-hundred unreleased tracks. I've got stuff that's electronic, orchestral, jazz, I've got rock, I've got metal, you know, I don't have polka.
Serj Tankian
People always ask me 'do you think there should be more bands doing political music?' and I say 'absolutely not.'
Serj Tankian
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.
Serj Tankian
Sometimes it's better to have a benign dictator than a dumb democracy, to be honest.
Serj Tankian
I'm a huge Beatles fan, but I've only really gotten into them as an adult.
Serj Tankian
I hate injustice, and I can't help but speak against it. But I don't want to get involved in politics.
Serj Tankian
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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