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" I like African music, and I'm a huge Ravi Shankar fan. "

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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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Sometimes a good love song can change the world and create positive energy more than any political song can. "

" 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. "

" Sometimes it's better to have a benign dictator than a dumb democracy, to be honest. "

" I have a more direct avenue to expression as an artist than I ever would as a politician. "

" The percentage of Americans in the prison system, has doubled since 1985. "

" As long as people are living their truth or their vision, whether they're activists or not, that's the important thing. "

" I've always tried to listen to a lot of different music from around the world. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I think that the memory of Armenia's genocide opened my eyes at an early age to the existence of political cynicism. "

" I hate injustice, and I can't help but speak against it. But I don't want to get involved in politics. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" People always ask me 'do you think there should be more bands doing political music?' and I say 'absolutely not.' "

" 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. "

" I write music when I'm free and for no particular project in mind. "

" Awareness in our society has flipped all types of injustice on its head. "

" 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. "

" Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Touring and putting out records is fun and cool, but I've been doing it for a long time. "