Serj Tankian Quotes
Top 39 wise famous quotes and sayings by Serj Tankian
Serj Tankian Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
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.
It's probably a combination of personal and non-personal matters that have led us to where we are musically.
I think that the memory of Armenia's genocide opened my eyes at an early age to the existence of political cynicism.
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.
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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Political statements are usually more direct, and it works with the upbeat music as well, for some reason, the directness of your statements.
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.
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.
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.
I think every artist should follow their vision, their hearts is what they need to reveal, not something that society is looking out for.
People always ask me 'do you think there should be more bands doing political music?' and I say 'absolutely not.'
Sometimes a good love song can change the world and create positive energy more than any political song can.
It's the idea of a multi-sensory experience stemming from music that opened my interest into painting, to be honest.
As long as people are living their truth or their vision, whether they're activists or not, that's the important thing.
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.