Serj Tankian Quotes

Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace.
I'd rather let the music speak for itself.
I'm not comfortable with just entertaining. Although I like entertaining, I also like bringing forward the truth of our times as minstrels used to in the old days.
It's probably a combination of personal and non-personal matters that have led us to where we are musically.
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.
Pretending that we live doesn't make us alive.
The percentage of Americans in the prison system, has doubled since 1985.
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.
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.
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.
As an artist, you never want to write the same song again, you always want to challenge yourself to writing in a different way.
As long as people are living their truth or their vision, whether they're activists or not, that's the important thing.
Awareness in our society has flipped all types of injustice on its head.
Capitalism unchecked is not a democratic system.
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.
Corporatization is the descendant of industrialization.
'Elect the Dead' is a rock record that takes you on a journey with different types of genres integrated, different lyrical themes digested, and many fun and colorful moments to enjoy.
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.
I am more interested in how people interpret the phrase 'Elect The Dead' than what I may or may not have intended. I named the album after the track, which is a spiritual song about love, life and death and is the heaviest song on the album without having any heavy instruments.
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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