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Spirit moves through all things.
Serj Tankian
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Serj Tankian
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: August 21
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Science fails to recognize the single most potent element of human existence...faith.
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Sometimes it's better to have a benign dictator than a dumb democracy, to be honest.
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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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What does civilization mean to you, and what would its ending bring to the world?
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I don't want to spend all my time working as an activist. I don't get satisfaction out of it. I'd rather be doing something else. I'm a musician.
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I like African music, and I'm a huge Ravi Shankar fan.
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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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With 'Elect the Dead,' I learned how to make a rock record without a rock band and make the rock record I've always wanted to make.
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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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Day is just a collection of hours.
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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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Sometimes a good love song can change the world and create positive energy more than any political song can.
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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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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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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 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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When I was younger, I was listening to a lot of Armenian music, you know, revolutionary music about freedom and protest. In the 70s I was listening to soul and the Bee Gees and ABBA, and funk.
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Awareness in our society has flipped all types of injustice on its head.
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Life is that perfect fine line between ironies.
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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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