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Serj Tankian
American
Musician
Born:
Aug 21
,
1967
Me
Music
People
Think
World
You
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We first fought... in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.
Serj Tankian
Religion
Terrorism
Change
Communism
First
Our
Name
Global
Excuses
Always
Domination
Then
Fought
Now
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 think every artist should follow their vision, their hearts is what they need to reveal, not something that society is looking out for.
Serj Tankian
Vision
Looking
Every
Think
Society
Out
Follow
Something
Reveal
Hearts
Artist
Should
Need
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
We first fought the heathens in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.
Serj Tankian
Religion
Terrorism
Change
Communism
First
Our
Name
Global
Excuses
Always
Domination
Then
Fought
Now
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
As an artist, you never want to write the same song again, you always want to challenge yourself to writing in a different way.
Serj Tankian
You
Yourself
Song
Writing
Challenge
Way
Write
Never
Always
Same
Artist
Different
Want
Again
Different Way
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
Politics
Truth
Me
Book
People
Writing
Think
Would
More
Through
Write
Feel
Like
Lot
Effective
Get
Representative
Arts
Being
Might
Asked
I write music when I'm free and for no particular project in mind.
Serj Tankian
Music
Mind
Free
Project
Write
Particular
Touring and putting out records is fun and cool, but I've been doing it for a long time.
Serj Tankian
Time
Long
Long Time
Out
Records
Touring
Putting
Doing
Been
Cool
Fun
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
Music
Experience
People
Videos
Made
Define
Composed
More
Myriad
Songs
Most
Always
Making
Overly
Leaving
Integral
Irrespective
Room
Themselves
Internalize
Things
Careful
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
I think music is a powerful medium because it co-inspires. It inspires the artist who then inspires the listener, and it's a back-and-forth process.
Serj Tankian
Music
Think
Medium
Inspires
Powerful
Powerful Medium
Because
Artist
Listener
Process
Then
Who
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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