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I'm a huge Beatles fan, but I've only really gotten into them as an adult.
Serj Tankian
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Serj Tankian
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: August 21
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I've always thought of the sky as, like, an open canvas. When I was a kid and I looked at the sky, I always remember being able to daydream, just looking at the sky, being creative, being able to design things. What would happen if we had no sky? Where would we be? Well, obviously, scientifically, without an atmosphere, we'd all be dead.
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We have the power to change our lives, and the world around us.
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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 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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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 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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I like African music, and I'm a huge Ravi Shankar fan.
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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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Sometimes it's better to have a benign dictator than a dumb democracy, to be honest.
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The living ideas of the dead are more powerful and effective than the dead ideas of the living.
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In America, there's more of the question, should music be political or should it just be for entertainment purposes, whereas around the world that's not even an issue. I think people just assume that music should be everything.
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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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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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Awareness in our society has flipped all types of injustice on its head.
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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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Touring and putting out records is fun and cool, but I've been doing it for a long time.
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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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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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