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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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" 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. "

" I'm a huge Beatles fan, but I've only really gotten into them as an adult. "

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

" Capitalism unchecked is not a democratic system. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" My two interests are spirituality and politics. I would mesh them in some way; maybe try to figure out the politics of spirituality, or the spirituality of politics. Or maybe come up with this really crazy naive solution for the end of civilization. "

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

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

" I've always worked on all different types of music, some with specific project goals and deadlines and some not. Sometimes I would write a piece of music that is almost like a film score or weird electro pieces, wherever the muse took me, and I still do that. "

" Pretending that we live doesn't make us alive. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Corporatization is the descendant of industrialization. "

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" '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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "