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Science fails to recognize the single most potent element of human existence...faith.
Serj Tankian
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Serj Tankian
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: August 21
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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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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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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 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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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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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 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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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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People always ask me 'do you think there should be more bands doing political music?' and I say 'absolutely not.'
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Sometimes it's better to have a benign dictator than a dumb democracy, to be honest.
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Spirit moves through all things.
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My two interests are spirituality and politics. I would mesh them in some way maybe try to figure out the politics of spirituality, or the spirituality of politics. Or maybe come up with this really crazy naive solution for the end of civilization.
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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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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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