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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.
Serj Tankian
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Serj Tankian
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: August 21
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We have the power to change our lives, and the world around us.
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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 have a more direct avenue to expression as an artist than I ever would as a politician.
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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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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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Science fails to recognize the single most potent element of human existence...faith.
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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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People always ask me 'do you think there should be more bands doing political music?' and I say 'absolutely not.'
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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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Awareness in our society has flipped all types of injustice on its head.
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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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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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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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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'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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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 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 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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The living ideas of the dead are more powerful and effective than the dead ideas of the living.
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Day is just a collection of hours.
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