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We have the power to change our lives, and the world around us.

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Serj Tankian
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: August 21
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Environmentalist
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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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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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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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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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Sometimes a good love song can change the world and create positive energy more than any political song can.
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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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Science fails to recognize the single most potent element of human existence...faith.
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Spirit moves through all things.
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Awareness in our society has flipped all types of injustice on its head.
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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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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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People always ask me 'do you think there should be more bands doing political music?' and I say 'absolutely not.'
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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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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 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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The living ideas of the dead are more powerful and effective than the dead ideas of the living.
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Day is just a collection of hours.
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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 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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