Serj Tankian Quotes

I don't want to spend all my time working as an activist. I don't get satisfaction out of it. I'd rather be doing something else. I'm a musician.
I hate injustice, and I can't help but speak against it. But I don't want to get involved in politics.
I have a more direct avenue to expression as an artist than I ever would as a politician.
I like African music, and I'm a huge Ravi Shankar fan.
I like having songs that go from the personal to the kind of inter-relational, universal, because everything comes back to micro/macro and everything's tied in.
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.
I think every artist should follow their vision, their hearts is what they need to reveal, not something that society is looking out for.
I think every artist should follow their vision; their hearts is what they need to reveal, not something that society is looking out for. That said though, I think also artists have, continuously good artists, have been good for their times.
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.
I think it's my interaction with journalists that has pegged me more as political than my actual records, although they have obviously political aspects to them as well.
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.
I think that the memory of Armenia's genocide opened my eyes at an early age to the existence of political cynicism.
I write music when I'm free and for no particular project in mind.
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.
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.
I'm a huge Beatles fan, but I've only really gotten into them as an adult.
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.
In the last few years I've been listening to jazz more than anything else. I listen to a lot of world music and experimental here and there.
It's the idea of a multi-sensory experience stemming from music that opened my interest into painting, to be honest.
I've always tried to listen to a lot of different music from around the world.
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