145 Quotes by Serj Tankian
"We're addicted to this concept of civilization - we can't imagine living outside of it because we've had it for 10,000 years, all of what we call history. But according to archaeologists, humanity has been on this planet for millions of years in indigenous form."
"You can say a lot more with a poem than you can with a song, but with a song you can really be more powerful with it. You can express it a lot more powerfully."
"I have a more direct avenue to expression as an artist than I ever would as a politician."
"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."
"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."
"People always ask me 'do you think there should be more bands doing political music?' and I say 'absolutely not.'"
"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."