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" 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. "

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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. "

Serj Tankian

Think

Interaction

Political

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

Serj Tankian

Back

Personal

" With most of the songs and music that I've composed, irrespective of the myriad videos made, I was always careful not to overly define the experience, leaving room for people to internalize things for themselves, making their experience more integral. "

Serj Tankian

Music

People

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

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

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

" 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

Old

Forward

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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'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. "

" '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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

Serj Tankian

Fan

African

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Corporatization is the descendant of industrialization. "

Serj Tankian

Industrialization

Descendant

" 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'd rather let the music speak for itself. "

" 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. "