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

Serj Tankian

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

" 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. "

" As an artist, you never want to write the same song again, you always want to challenge yourself to writing in a different way. "

" 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. "

" I've worked with some great orchestras and amazing classical musicians, but I don't like the conceptualization of classical music as an elitist form of art. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

Serj Tankian

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

Serj Tankian

Fan

African

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

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

" 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. "

" Life is that perfect fine line between ironies. "

" Capitalism unchecked is not a democratic system. "

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

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The most important thing about music that I've learned after all this time is that to me, it's a way of reaching the truth. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" It's probably a combination of personal and non-personal matters that have led us to where we are musically. "

" 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. "

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