Song Quotes by Shavo Odadjian

We are always writing music.

— Shavo Odadjian

We're not into the rock/rap movement.

— Shavo Odadjian

We're a life band, a social band.

— Shavo Odadjian

We've been a band since 1993. I don't think we're ever gonna be broken up.

— Shavo Odadjian

We're a band that keeps writing and recording - we don't know when it's over.

— Shavo Odadjian

When you open for a band, you don't play one of their songs. You just don't do that.

— Shavo Odadjian

We're four guys that play music. We're not a part of any genre. We just happened to have come out in 1998.

— Shavo Odadjian

We want to sound like a band you can't clone or even categorize. We like to throw everyone off.

— Shavo Odadjian

A band is a real band if they can play not just their songs, but they can just play.

— Shavo Odadjian

I like to think we're like a cross between Pink Floyd and Slayer.

— Shavo Odadjian

I don't like videos that explain the song. I like it to be kind of abstract, like a painting.

— Shavo Odadjian

I believe a band has to evolve rather than making the same album over and over again, because if you do, sooner…

— Shavo Odadjian

I've been a fan of Bad Brains ever since I can remember. They are iconic pioneers of punk, not just the music…

— Shavo Odadjian

We're musicians and despite that, we get more political questions than musical questions, which kind of irks me.

— Shavo Odadjian

When I hear a song, I close my eyes and see a lot of stuff happen, and I love making those visuals…

— Shavo Odadjian

When I listen to a band like Pink Floyd, I don't know the names of the individual songs, I know the full…

— Shavo Odadjian

There's a lot of bands that don't release an album every year. There's a lot of bands that take three, four or…

— Shavo Odadjian

I can't try to write a song - songs come out of me. I have to play the guitar and if I…

— Shavo Odadjian

Every human being sees something different in a painting, so I want every single person to have their own thoughts about our…

— Shavo Odadjian

We don't want to name our songs after the choruses, so we sometimes come up with random titles. We don't care if…

— Shavo Odadjian

To me, punk rock isn't a style of music, it's something you live.

— Shavo Odadjian