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Serj Tankian
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Serj Tankian
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: August 21
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What does civilization mean to you, and what would its ending bring to the world?
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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 have a more direct avenue to expression as an artist than I ever would as a politician.
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Touring and putting out records is fun and cool, but I've been doing it for a long time.
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I've got my own studio, and I've got four- to five-hundred unreleased tracks. I've got stuff that's electronic, orchestral, jazz, I've got rock, I've got metal, you know, I don't have polka.
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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 like African music, and I'm a huge Ravi Shankar fan.
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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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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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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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We have the power to change our lives, and the world around us.
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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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Science fails to recognize the single most potent element of human existence...faith.
Serj Tankian
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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People always ask me 'do you think there should be more bands doing political music?' and I say 'absolutely not.'
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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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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.
Serj Tankian
It's probably a combination of personal and non-personal matters that have led us to where we are musically.
Serj Tankian
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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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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