145 Quotes by 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.

I've worked with some great orchestras and amazing classical musicians, but I don't like the conceptualization of classical music as an elitist form of art.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

With most of the songs and music that I've composed, irrespective of the myriad videos made, I was always careful not to overly define the experience, leaving room for people to internalize things for themselves, making their experience more integral.