American - Musician | August 21, 1967 -
Pretending that we live doesn't make us alive.
Serj Tankian
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Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace.
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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.
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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 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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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.
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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.
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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.
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Sometimes it's better to have a benign dictator than a dumb democracy, to be honest.
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Corporatization is the descendant of industrialization.
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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.
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Awareness in our society has flipped all types of injustice on its head.
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