145 Quotes by Serj Tankian

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.

I write music when I'm free and for no particular project in mind.

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.

'Elect the Dead' is a rock record that takes you on a journey with different types of genres integrated, different lyrical themes digested, and many fun and colorful moments to enjoy.

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'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.

In America, there's more of the question, should music be political or should it just be for entertainment purposes, whereas around the world that's not even an issue. I think people just assume that music should be everything.