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In terms of political things, I think it's important to be more direct in terms of political statements. I think in terms of philosophical and things that you plant things and see them grow lyrically or musically, it's okay to be subtle.

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Serj Tankian
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: August 21
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What does civilization mean to you, and what would its ending bring to the world?
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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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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'm a huge Beatles fan, but I've only really gotten into them as an adult.
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I like African music, and I'm a huge Ravi Shankar fan.
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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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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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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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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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Sometimes it's better to have a benign dictator than a dumb democracy, to be honest.
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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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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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I don't find most people to be as politically engaged as I am. I do find people that appreciate eye-opening events and words, and who want to learn more about what's going on. I do find people with a lot of opinions. And I get a lot of people who come up to me and give us props for what we do.
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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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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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Science fails to recognize the single most potent element of human existence...faith.
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