Serj Tankian

I am more interested in how people interpret the phrase 'Elect The Dead' than what I may or may not have intended.…

— Serj Tankian

If you allow for a purely capitalistic society, without any type of regulation at all, you will get one monopoly that will…

— Serj Tankian

I've always thought of the sky as, like, an open canvas. When I was a kid and I looked at the sky,…

— Serj Tankian

To deny a genocide because of convenience and expediency having to do with an illegal war or occupation in Iraq to me,…

— Serj Tankian

I think nobody wants to hear a sermon. Well, some people do, but maybe not through music or not with me. No…

— Serj Tankian

“The diversity of sounds rule my ever presence with their highs and blows, encompassing the totality of sensual experience. I'm a child…

— Serj Tankian

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

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,…

— Serj Tankian

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

— Serj Tankian

I think as consumers Europeans are a lot more artist loyal irrespective of the genre of music or the type of project…

— Serj Tankian

Touring and putting out records is fun and cool, but I've been doing it for a long time.

— Serj Tankian

We first fought the heathens in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our…

— Serj Tankian

Science has failed our mother Earth.

— Serj Tankian

We are the cause of a world that's gone wrong. Nature will survive us, we've been wrong after all. We are the…

— Serj Tankian

You can say a lot more with a poem than you can with a song, but with a song you can really…

— Serj Tankian

People always ask me 'do you think there should be more bands doing political music?' and I say 'absolutely not.'

— Serj Tankian

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

— Serj Tankian

Spirit moves through all things.

— Serj Tankian

Capitalism unchecked is not a democratic system.

— Serj Tankian

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

I think every artist should follow their vision; their hearts is what they need to reveal, not something that society is looking…

— Serj Tankian

'Elect the Dead' is a rock record that takes you on a journey with different types of genres integrated, different lyrical themes…

— Serj Tankian

It's important for all people, and not just people in bands, to speak out on social justice issues. That means journalists or…

— Serj Tankian

Day is just a collection of hours.

— Serj Tankian

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