65 Quotes by Daron Malakian

If I was money-motivated, I wouldn't have joined a rock band with three other Armenian guys.

I don't think when I'm doing music. Things just happen. I've even taken my clothes off while performing. But then I'm so shy that I can't even take my clothes off in the dressing room, even though it's just the other guys in the band in here with me. It's really weird.

I don't understand some of the music I hear on MTV or the radio, because they don't mention the times we live in. They have nothing to do with nothing.

Whatever I write has to evolve around my taste in music at that moment, because that always changes.

He's gone so far to find no hope/ He's never coming back.

I was always searching for something bigger, faster and better, and Slayer came up with that.

I'm so inside of it that maybe that's a little tough for me to tell, but I don't see too big of a difference. I see them both as one record, you know? Not to compare us to, like, the Beatles, but the only thing I can compare it to is, like, you listen to the 'White Album' and it's a double album, but, like, they're just a bunch of great songs.

I would never cancel a tour unless I had real reasons and personal things that require my undivided attention.

We wanted to make a record that was a success beyond where we were at. All of my favorite bands evolved, and I really wanted our band to evolve.