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" 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. "

Serj Tankian

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" 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. "

" 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. "

Serj Tankian

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" 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

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" 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. "

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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. "

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

" With rock music, the amount of power that you can generate, the intensity behind the intentions of your lyrics that you can really reflect through rock music - you can't do that in jazz. You can't do that with classical. "

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

" 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. "

" It's the idea of a multi-sensory experience stemming from music that opened my interest into painting, to be honest. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "