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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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Serj Tankian
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: August 21
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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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Science fails to recognize the single most potent element of human existence...faith.
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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 always ask me 'do you think there should be more bands doing political music?' and I say 'absolutely not.'
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Spirit moves through all things.
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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 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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Sometimes a good love song can change the world and create positive energy more than any political song can.
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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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We have the power to change our lives, and the world around us.
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I like African music, and I'm a huge Ravi Shankar fan.
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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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Sometimes it's better to have a benign dictator than a dumb democracy, to be honest.
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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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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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I have a more direct avenue to expression as an artist than I ever would as a politician.
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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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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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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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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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