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" Awareness in our society has flipped all types of injustice on its head. "
Serj Tankian
Injustice
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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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" Touring and putting out records is fun and cool, but I've been doing it for a long time. "
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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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" 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. "
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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. That said though, I think also artists have, continuously good artists, have been good for their times. "
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" It's the idea of a multi-sensory experience stemming from music that opened my interest into painting, to be honest. "
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" You can say a lot more with a poem than you can with a song, but with a song you can really be more powerful with it. You can express it a lot more powerfully. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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Trying
" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Old
Forward
" I write music when I'm free and for no particular project in mind. "
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Write
Music
Mind
" With 'Elect the Dead,' I learned how to make a rock record without a rock band and make the rock record I've always wanted to make. "
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" 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. "
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People
" 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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" Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace. "
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Think
Failure
Love
" We're addicted to this concept of civilization - we can't imagine living outside of it because we've had it for 10,000 years, all of what we call history. But according to archaeologists, humanity has been on this planet for millions of years in indigenous form. "
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" 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. "
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Doing
" '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. "
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Moments
You
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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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Think
You
Political
" Pretending that we live doesn't make us alive. "
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Make
" I think that the memory of Armenia's genocide opened my eyes at an early age to the existence of political cynicism. "
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" People get so attached to a position which they identify themselves with that they just spurt it out, but they can't really give you a viable reason why they feel that way. "
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" 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. "
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Spiritual
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Love
" 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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Communism
Change
Religion
" 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. "
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" As long as people are living their truth or their vision, whether they're activists or not, that's the important thing. "
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" You listen to Bob Dylan and you can't help but think of the 60s, it's very relational and if artists are true artists and not just mere musicians they need to be truthful because the music doesn't come from them it comes from the universe and it's to be shared. At best, we're skilled presenters, and I say that at best. "
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Music
Musicians
Help
" I hate injustice, and I can't help but speak against it. But I don't want to get involved in politics. "
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Speak
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Hate
" 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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