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Serj Tankian


American
August 21, 1967
Musician
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Capitalism unchecked is not a democratic system.


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It's probably a combination of personal and non-personal matters that have led us to where we are musically.
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Sometimes it's better to have a benign dictator than a dumb democracy, to be honest.


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


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