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" Corporatization is the descendant of industrialization. "
Serj Tankian
Industrialization
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" 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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" 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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" 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 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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" Capitalism unchecked is not a democratic system. "
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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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" The percentage of Americans in the prison system, has doubled since 1985. "
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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 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. "
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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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