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Serj Tankian
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: August 21
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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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 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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Spirit moves through all things.
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Harout Pamboukjian is one of the biggest Armenian folk singers in the world. In the '70s, he was making these records that were really Zeppelin-influenced.
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Science fails to recognize the single most potent element of human existence...faith.
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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'm a huge Beatles fan, but I've only really gotten into them as an adult.
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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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It's probably a combination of personal and non-personal matters that have led us to where we are musically.
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Awareness in our society has flipped all types of injustice on its head.
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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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Touring and putting out records is fun and cool, but I've been doing it for a long time.
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