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Serj Tankian
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: August 21
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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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I really feel like civilisation's already over. It's not ending but it's already done. We're all addicted to the concept that humanity equals civilisation and that's not the case. We need a global conversation to be able to decipher how we can live from this point forward. We have to redefine our relationship with our environment.
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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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We [americans] self-regulate ourselves, we self-censor ourselves a lot in this country instead of having someone else censor us so we can blame them. That's not good, either.
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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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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'm a huge Beatles fan, but I've only really gotten into them as an adult.
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I like African music, and I'm a huge Ravi Shankar fan.
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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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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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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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Sometimes a good love song can change the world and create positive energy more than any political song can.
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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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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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I believe very firmly that indigenous populations had a really good, intuitive understanding of why we're here. And we're trying to gain that same understanding through psychology and intellect in modern civilization.
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I think every artist should follow their vision, their hearts is what they need to reveal, not something that society is looking out for.
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Life is that perfect fine line between ironies.
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