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Touring and putting out records is fun and cool, but I've been doing it for a long time.
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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Science fails to recognize the single most potent element of human existence...faith.
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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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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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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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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 have a more direct avenue to expression as an artist than I ever would as a politician.
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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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People always ask me 'do you think there should be more bands doing political music?' and I say 'absolutely not.'
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Awareness in our society has flipped all types of injustice on its head.
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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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The best way to do that is to pick up a new instrument or an instrument that you don't typically write on and see where it takes you. Whether it's using an acoustic guitar, or piano, or electronics as tools, all of these lead to creating different types of songs and I used all of these methods for this record.
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To deny a genocide because of convenience and expediency having to do with an illegal war or occupation in Iraq to me, is double hypocritical.
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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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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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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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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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What does civilization mean to you, and what would its ending bring to the world?
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Sometimes it's better to have a benign dictator than a dumb democracy, to be honest.
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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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