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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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Serj Tankian
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: August 21
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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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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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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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We have the power to change our lives, and the world around us.
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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 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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