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I like African music, and I'm a huge Ravi Shankar fan.

Serj Tankian

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Serj Tankian
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: August 21
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Peace Activist
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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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'Elect the Dead' is a rock record that takes you on a journey with different types of genres integrated, different lyrical themes digested, and many fun and colorful moments to enjoy.
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Awareness in our society has flipped all types of injustice on its head.
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With most of the songs and music that I've composed, irrespective of the myriad videos made, I was always careful not to overly define the experience, leaving room for people to internalize things for themselves, making their experience more integral.
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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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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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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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What does civilization mean to you, and what would its ending bring to the world?
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Day is just a collection of hours.
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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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Spirit moves through all things.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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'm a huge Beatles fan, but I've only really gotten into them as an adult.
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