I've always tried to listen to a lot of different music from around the world. — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
I've worked with some great orchestras and amazing classical musicians, but I don't like the conceptualization of classical music as an elitist… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
I like having songs that go from the personal to the kind of inter-relational, universal, because everything comes back to micro/macro and… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
I don't want to spend all my time working as an activist. I don't get satisfaction out of it. I'd rather be… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
In the last few years I've been listening to jazz more than anything else. I listen to a lot of world music… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
A lot of pop music is based on trying to make people remember it so that they'll buy it. To me, it… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
The most important thing about music that I've learned after all this time is that to me, it's a way of reaching… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
I think nobody wants to hear a sermon. Well, some people do, but maybe not through music or not with me. No… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
I think music has the ability to inspire people and to change hearts, and the heart has the power to change the… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
The next song I wrote in Paris years ago in a dream. So I didn't really write it, the universe wrote it.… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
I've always worked on all different types of music, some with specific project goals and deadlines and some not. Sometimes I would… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
In America, there's more of the question, should music be political or should it just be for entertainment purposes, whereas around the… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
With most of the songs and music that I've composed, irrespective of the myriad videos made, I was always careful not to… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
I think music is an intuitive force. It's this beautiful wave that connects all of us and inspires us, and I think… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
People think our music's very aggressive or angry or whatever, and it's just the opposite, really... I like laughing. And I like… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
With rock music, the amount of power that you can generate, the intensity behind the intentions of your lyrics that you can… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
You listen to Bob Dylan and you can't help but think of the 60s, it's very relational and if artists are true… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
I think the gift of music is it's intuitive capability. I think music is a powerful medium because it co-inspires. It inspires… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
My personal relationship with music is an imperfect harmony because I never studied music, but here I am not just writing for… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
I think as consumers Europeans are a lot more artist loyal irrespective of the genre of music or the type of project… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
Political statements are usually more direct, and it works with the upbeat music as well, for some reason, the directness of your… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
It's the idea of a multi-sensory experience stemming from music that opened my interest into painting, to be honest. — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
I think music is a powerful medium because it co-inspires. It inspires the artist who then inspires the listener, and it's a… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I was listening to a lot of Armenian music, you know, revolutionary music about freedom and protest. In… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
As an artist, you never want to write the same song again, you always want to challenge yourself to writing in a different way. — Serj Tankian Copy Share
My personal relationship with music is an imperfect harmony because I never studied music, but here I am not just writing for bands but… — Serj Tankian Copy Share
“I've had people come up to me with the strangest interpretations of what my lyrics might mean, and I'm like, "You go! I never… — Serj Tankian Copy Share
With rock music, the amount of power that you can generate, the intensity behind the intentions of your lyrics that you can really reflect… — Serj Tankian Copy Share
I don't find most people to be as politically engaged as I am. I do find people that appreciate eye-opening events and words, and… — Serj Tankian Copy Share
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… — Serj Tankian Copy Share
I think music is a powerful medium because it co-inspires. It inspires the artist who then inspires the listener, and it's a back-and-forth process. — Serj Tankian Copy Share
I think anytime that you go to the extreme of any mode of economics, be it capitalism or communism, you have these feedback mechanisms… — Serj Tankian Copy Share
My two interests are spirituality and politics. I would mesh them in some way; maybe try to figure out the politics of spirituality, or… — Serj Tankian Copy Share
Political statements are usually more direct, and it works with the upbeat music as well, for some reason, the directness of your statements. — Serj Tankian Copy Share
