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" 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. "
People
Music
Trying
" As an artist, you never want to write the same song again, you always want to challenge yourself to writing in a different way. "
Challenge
Writing
Song
" As long as people are living their truth or their vision, whether they're activists or not, that's the important thing. "
Vision
Living
Long
" Awareness in our society has flipped all types of injustice on its head. "
Injustice
Society
Our
" Capitalism unchecked is not a democratic system. "
System
Democratic
Capitalism
" Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace. "
Think
Failure
Love
" 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. "
Way
Expression
Love
" Corporatization is the descendant of industrialization. "
Industrialization
Descendant
" '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. "
Moments
You
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. "
Folk
Were
World
" 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. "
Spiritual
Song
Love
" 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. "
Good
Trying
Understanding
" 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. "
Working
Want
Doing
" I'd rather let the music speak for itself. "
Music
Itself
Speak
" 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. "
Society
Capitalism
Competition
" 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. "
Balance
You
Out
" I hate injustice, and I can't help but speak against it. But I don't want to get involved in politics. "
Speak
Help
Hate
" I have a more direct avenue to expression as an artist than I ever would as a politician. "
More
Politician
Artist
" I like African music, and I'm a huge Ravi Shankar fan. "
Fan
African
Like
" 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. "
Go
Back
Personal
" I'm a huge Beatles fan, but I've only really gotten into them as an adult. "
Really
Them
Only
" 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. "
Like
Old
Forward
" 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. "
World
Think
People
" 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. "
World
Jazz
Listen
" 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. "
Turn
You
Think
" 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. "
Vision
Think
Good
" 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. "
Truth
Politics
People
" 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. "
Think
Interaction
Political
" 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. "
Artist
Process
Think
" I think that the memory of Armenia's genocide opened my eyes at an early age to the existence of political cynicism. "
Age
Political
Memory
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