Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" 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. "

Related Quotes:

" 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. "

Serj Tankian

Working

Want

Doing

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

" 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

You

Song

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Capitalism unchecked is not a democratic system. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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

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

" 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'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. "

Serj Tankian

Film

Goals

" 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. "

" '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'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

" 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. "

" Corporatization is the descendant of industrialization. "

Serj Tankian

Industrialization

Descendant

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

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

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

" 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. "