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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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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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Political statements are usually more direct, and it works with the upbeat music as well, for some reason, the directness of your statements.
Serj Tankian
As an artist, you never want to write the same song again, you always want to challenge yourself to writing in a different way.
Serj Tankian
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 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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People get so attached to a position which they identify themselves with that they just spurt it out, but they can't really give you a viable reason why they feel that way.
Serj Tankian
I hate injustice, and I can't help but speak against it. But I don't want to get involved in politics.
Serj Tankian
I like African music, and I'm a huge Ravi Shankar fan.
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Touring and putting out records is fun and cool, but I've been doing it for a long time.
Serj Tankian
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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I think every artist should follow their vision, their hearts is what they need to reveal, not something that society is looking out for.
Serj Tankian
Sometimes a good love song can change the world and create positive energy more than any political song can.
Serj Tankian
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.
Serj Tankian
We have the power to change our lives, and the world around us.
Serj Tankian
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.
Serj Tankian
Sometimes it's better to have a benign dictator than a dumb democracy, to be honest.
Serj Tankian
People always ask me 'do you think there should be more bands doing political music?' and I say 'absolutely not.'
Serj Tankian
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.
Serj Tankian
As long as people are living their truth or their vision, whether they're activists or not, that's the important thing.
Serj Tankian
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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