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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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The living ideas of the dead are more powerful and effective than the dead ideas of the living.
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Awareness in our society has flipped all types of injustice on its head.
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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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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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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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'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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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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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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Spirit moves through all things.
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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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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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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 don't find most people to be as politically engaged as I am. I do find people that appreciate eye-opening events and words, and who want to learn more about what's going on. I do find people with a lot of opinions. And I get a lot of people who come up to me and give us props for what we do.
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Day is just a collection of hours.
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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.
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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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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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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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