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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. — Serj Tankian

Capitalism unchecked is not a democratic system. — Serj Tankian

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. — Serj Tankian

Spirit moves through all things. — Serj Tankian

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

Pretending that we live doesn't make us alive. — Serj Tankian

We have the power to change our lives, and the world around us. — Serj Tankian

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

I like African music, and I'm a huge Ravi Shankar fan. — Serj Tankian

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

I have a more direct avenue to expression as an artist than I ever would as a politician. — Serj Tankian

Science fails to recognize the single most potent element of human existence ... faith. — Serj Tankian

The percentage of Americans in the prison system, has doubled since 1985. — Serj Tankian

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

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

Science has failed our mother Earth. — Serj Tankian

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Controlling tools of your system
Making life more tolerable
Making life more tolerable — Serj Tankian

Political statements are usually more direct, and it works with the upbeat music as well, for some reason, the directness of your statements. — Serj Tankian

Corporatization is the descendant of industrialization. — Serj Tankian

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. — Serj Tankian

Awareness in our society has flipped all types of injustice on its head. — Serj Tankian

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. — Serj Tankian

To deny a genocide because of convenience and expediency having to do with an illegal war or occupation in Iraq to me, is double hypocritical. — Serj Tankian

What does civilization mean to you, and what would its ending bring to the world? — Serj Tankian

I think every artist should follow their vision, their hearts is what they need to reveal, not something that society is looking out for. — Serj Tankian

Life is that perfect fine line between ironies. — Serj Tankian

Day is just a collection of hours. — Serj Tankian

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

I write music when I'm free and for no particular project in mind. — Serj Tankian

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

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

The living ideas of the dead are more powerful and effective than the dead ideas of the living. — Serj Tankian

Sometimes it's better to have a benign dictator than a dumb democracy, to be honest. — Serj Tankian

I'd rather let the music speak for itself. — Serj Tankian

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

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

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

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

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. — Serj Tankian