Serj Tankian Quotes

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.
Serj Tankian

Change, Religion, Excuses

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

Live, Alive, Pretending

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

Music, Angry, Before

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.
Serj Tankian

Good, Through, Trying

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

Love, Peace, Failure

I think anytime that you go to the extreme of any mode of economics, be it capitalism or communism, you have these feedback mechanisms that make the system turn in on itself.
Serj Tankian

System, Turn, Capitalism

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

Yourself, Writing, Different

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

Politics, Hate, Help

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

Music, Speak, Rather

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

Since, System, Prison

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.
Serj Tankian

Change, Religion, Excuses

You listen to Bob Dylan and you can't help but think of the 60s, it's very relational and if artists are true artists and not just mere musicians they need to be truthful because the music doesn't come from them it comes from the universe and it's to be shared. At best, we're skilled presenters, and I say that at best.
Serj Tankian

Music, Best, True

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

Truth, Important, Long

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

Society, Head, Injustice

Capitalism unchecked is not a democratic system.
Serj Tankian

System, Democratic, Capitalism

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.
Serj Tankian

Love, Cannot, Another

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.
Serj Tankian

Making, Biggest, Records

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

Artist, Expression, Politician

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

Music, Fan, African

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

Society, Vision, Artist

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

Adult, Fan, Beatles

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

Truth, Forward, Old

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

Music, Different, Around

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.
Serj Tankian

Rock, Stuff, Metal

If you allow for a purely capitalistic society, without any type of regulation at all, you will get one monopoly that will eat all of the smaller fish and own everything, and then you'll have zero capitalism, zero competition - it would just be one giant company.
Serj Tankian

Society, Everything, Fish

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Nationality: American

Born: August 21, 1967

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