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The living ideas of the dead are more powerful and effective than the dead ideas of the living.

Serj Tankian

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Serj Tankian
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: August 21
Bassist
Environmentalist
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Guitarist
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Peace Activist
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Sometimes it's better to have a benign dictator than a dumb democracy, to be honest.
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'Elect the Dead' is a rock record that takes you on a journey with different types of genres integrated, different lyrical themes digested, and many fun and colorful moments to enjoy.
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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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Day is just a collection of hours.
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We have the power to change our lives, and the world around us.
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As long as people are living their truth or their vision, whether they're activists or not, that's the important thing.
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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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I have a more direct avenue to expression as an artist than I ever would as a politician.
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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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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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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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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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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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I like African music, and I'm a huge Ravi Shankar fan.
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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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Life is that perfect fine line between ironies.
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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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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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