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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.

Serj Tankian

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Serj Tankian
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: August 21
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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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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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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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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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Sometimes a good love song can change the world and create positive energy more than any political song can.
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I like African music, and I'm a huge Ravi Shankar fan.
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Science fails to recognize the single most potent element of human existence...faith.
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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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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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Sometimes it's better to have a benign dictator than a dumb democracy, to be honest.
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Spirit moves through all things.
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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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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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Awareness in our society has flipped all types of injustice on its head.
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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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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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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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Touring and putting out records is fun and cool, but I've been doing it for a long time.
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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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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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