American - Musician | August 21, 1967 -
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
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It's probably a combination of personal and non-personal matters that have led us to where we are musically.
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Capitalism unchecked is not a democratic system.
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As an artist, you never want to write the same song again, you always want to challenge yourself to writing in a different way.
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The best way to do that is to pick up a new instrument or an instrument that you don't typically write on and see where it takes you. Whether it's using an acoustic guitar, or piano, or electronics as tools, all of these lead to creating different types of songs and I used all of these methods for this record.
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People always ask me 'do you think there should be more bands doing political music?' and I say 'absolutely not.'
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I've got my own studio, and I've got four- to five-hundred unreleased tracks. I've got stuff that's electronic, orchestral, jazz, I've got rock, I've got metal, you know, I don't have polka.
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When I was younger, I was listening to a lot of Armenian music, you know, revolutionary music about freedom and protest. In the 70s I was listening to soul and the Bee Gees and ABBA, and funk.
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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.
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I have a more direct avenue to expression as an artist than I ever would as a politician.
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The most important thing about music that I've learned after all this time is that to me, it's a way of reaching the truth.
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I'm a huge Beatles fan, but I've only really gotten into them as an adult.
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