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Serj Tankian

American Musician

Born: Aug 21, 1967

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Pretending that we live doesn't make us alive. Serj Tankian

Pretending Live Alive Make Us

If you allow for a purely capitalistic society, without any type of regulation at all, you will get one monopoly that will eat all of the smaller fish and own everything, and then you'll have zero capitalism, zero competition - it would just be one giant company. Serj Tankian

You Capitalism Competition Will Own Just Be Society Monopoly Type Everything Giant Would Eat Purely Allow Smaller Without Fish Get Any Just Then Capitalistic Regulation Company Zero

With rock music, the amount of power that you can generate, the intensity behind the intentions of your lyrics that you can really reflect through rock music - you can't do that in jazz. You can't do that with classical. Serj Tankian

Music You Power Reflect Jazz Lyrics Classical Through Generate Rock Rock Music Intensity Behind Intentions Really Your Amount

Capitalism unchecked is not a democratic system. Serj Tankian

Capitalism System Democratic

I hate injustice, and I can't help but speak against it. But I don't want to get involved in politics. Serj Tankian

Politics Injustice Hate Speak Involved Get Want Against Help

You listen to Bob Dylan and you can't help but think of the 60s, it's very relational and if artists are true artists and not just mere musicians they need to be truthful because the music doesn't come from them it comes from the universe and it's to be shared. At best, we're skilled presenters, and I say that at best. Serj Tankian

Music Best You Musicians Think Universe Say Shared Mere True Come Because Very Truthful Listen Just Artists Dylan Them Bob Bob Dylan Skilled Help Need

I have a more direct avenue to expression as an artist than I ever would as a politician. Serj Tankian

Politician Avenue Would Direct More Than Artist Expression Ever

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. Serj Tankian

World Folk Records He Armenian Singers Making Were Biggest Really

I've always worked on all different types of music, some with specific project goals and deadlines and some not. Sometimes I would write a piece of music that is almost like a film score or weird electro pieces, wherever the muse took me, and I still do that. Serj Tankian

Music Me Sometimes Goals Took Types Project Would Some Write Almost Weird Like Piece Pieces Deadlines Always Still Score Different Wherever Worked Different Types Film Specific Muse

Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace. Serj Tankian

Love Failure Together Peace Think Civilization Need

People think our music's very aggressive or angry or whatever, and it's just the opposite, really... I like laughing. And I like being really calm before a show, and smiley. Serj Tankian

Music Angry People Calm Before Whatever Aggressive Think Our Laughing Like Smiley Opposite Very Just Being Really Show

I think anytime that you go to the extreme of any mode of economics, be it capitalism or communism, you have these feedback mechanisms that make the system turn in on itself. Serj Tankian

You Capitalism Communism Feedback Economics Think Extreme System Make Go Itself Mode Any Anytime Turn Mechanisms

Awareness in our society has flipped all types of injustice on its head. Serj Tankian

Injustice Awareness Society Types Our Head Flipped

Composing is what I love most from what I do. Each genre has a unique expression that you cannot supplant with another. All the records co-inspire each other though they are not tied conceptually in any way to another. Serj Tankian

Love You Other Way Though Composing Records Most Genre Tied Another Any Cannot Unique Each Expression

As long as people are living their truth or their vision, whether they're activists or not, that's the important thing. Serj Tankian

Truth People Vision Long Important Living Important Thing Whether Activists Thing

I think I might write a book. I like writing. People have asked me if I would get into politics, but I think I feel a lot more effective being a representative of truth through the arts. Serj Tankian

I write music when I'm free and for no particular project in mind. Serj Tankian

Music Mind Free Project Write Particular

With most of the songs and music that I've composed, irrespective of the myriad videos made, I was always careful not to overly define the experience, leaving room for people to internalize things for themselves, making their experience more integral. Serj Tankian

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. Serj Tankian

Music Entertainment People World Political Just Be Think Assume Everything More Purposes Around Issue Question America Just Whereas Should Even

You can say a lot more with a poem than you can with a song, but with a song you can really be more powerful with it. You can express it a lot more powerfully. Serj Tankian

You Song Say Poem More Powerful Lot Than Really Express

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