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Life is that perfect fine line between ironies.
Serj Tankian
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Serj Tankian
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: August 21
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Day is just a collection of hours.
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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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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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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 have a more direct avenue to expression as an artist than I ever would as a politician.
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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 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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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'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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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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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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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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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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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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We have the power to change our lives, and the world around us.
Serj Tankian
Touring and putting out records is fun and cool, but I've been doing it for a long time.
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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.
Serj Tankian
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 [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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It's probably a combination of personal and non-personal matters that have led us to where we are musically.
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