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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
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Serj Tankian
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: August 21
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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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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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The living ideas of the dead are more powerful and effective than the dead ideas of the living.
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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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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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Day is just a collection of hours.
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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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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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Spirit moves through all things.
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I think music has the ability to inspire people and to change hearts, and the heart has the power to change the mind, and the mind has the power to change the world.
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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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Sometimes it's better to have a benign dictator than a dumb democracy, to be honest.
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Awareness in our society has flipped all types of injustice on its head.
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I've got my own studio, and I've got four- to five-hundred unreleased tracks. I've got stuff that's electronic, orchestral, jazz, I've got rock, I've got metal, you know, I don't have polka.
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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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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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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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