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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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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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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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I'm a huge Beatles fan, but I've only really gotten into them as an adult.
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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 a good love song can change the world and create positive energy more than any political song can.
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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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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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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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I like African music, and I'm a huge Ravi Shankar fan.
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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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What does civilization mean to you, and what would its ending bring to the world?
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Awareness in our society has flipped all types of injustice on its head.
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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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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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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 it's better to have a benign dictator than a dumb democracy, to be honest.
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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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I believe very firmly that indigenous populations had a really good, intuitive understanding of why we're here. And we're trying to gain that same understanding through psychology and intellect in modern civilization.
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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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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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