145 Quotes by Serj Tankian

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

I like African music, and I’m a huge Ravi Shankar fan.

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

Pretending that we live doesn’t make us alive.

If you’re using live bass versus orchestral bass, you’ve got to make sure that you’re not stepping on the toes of the other elements, so you’ve got to balance it out.

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.

I think music is an intuitive force. It’s this beautiful wave that connects all of us and inspires us, and I think music has the ability – when you listen to a song, you’re not immediately thinking about the lyrics or what’s going on in the mind of the writer, you’re feeling the song.

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.

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.