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It's probably a combination of personal and non-personal matters that have led us to where we are musically.
Serj Tankian
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Serj Tankian
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: August 21
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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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What does civilization mean to you, and what would its ending bring to the world?
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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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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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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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Sometimes it's better to have a benign dictator than a dumb democracy, to be honest.
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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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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 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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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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Life is that perfect fine line between ironies.
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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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I like African music, and I'm a huge Ravi Shankar fan.
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Spirit moves through all things.
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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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I really feel like civilisation's already over. It's not ending but it's already done. We're all addicted to the concept that humanity equals civilisation and that's not the case. We need a global conversation to be able to decipher how we can live from this point forward. We have to redefine our relationship with our environment.
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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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Day is just a collection of hours.
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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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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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