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Life is that perfect fine line between ironies.

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Serj Tankian
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: August 21
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I like African music, and I'm a huge Ravi Shankar fan.
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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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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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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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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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We're addicted to this concept of civilization - we can't imagine living outside of it because we've had it for 10,000 years, all of what we call history. But according to archaeologists, humanity has been on this planet for millions of years in indigenous form.
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What does civilization mean to you, and what would its ending bring to the world?
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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 have a more direct avenue to expression as an artist than I ever would as a politician.
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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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We have the power to change our lives, and the world around us.
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Sometimes it's better to have a benign dictator than a dumb democracy, to be honest.
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Day is just a collection of hours.
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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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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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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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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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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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Spirit moves through all things.
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