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- When I was younger, I was listening to a lot of Armenian music, you know, revolutionary music about freedom and protest. In the 70s I…
- People always ask me 'do you think there should be more bands doing political music?' and I say 'absolutely not.'
- 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…
- As an artist, you never want to write the same song again, you always want to challenge yourself to writing in a different way.
- I think anytime that you go to the extreme of any mode of economics, be it capitalism or communism, you have these feedback mechanisms that…
- People get so attached to a position which they identify themselves with that they just spurt it out, but they can't really give you a…
- You listen to Bob Dylan and you can't help but think of the 60s, it's very relational and if artists are true artists and 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…
- '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…
- 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…
- If you allow for a purely capitalistic society, without any type of regulation at all, you will get one monopoly that will eat all of…
- If you're using live bass versus orchestral bass, you've got to make sure that you're not stepping on the toes of the other elements, so…
- The best way to do that is to pick up a new instrument or an instrument that you don't typically write on and see where…
- With rock music, the amount of power that you can generate, the intensity behind the intentions of your lyrics that you can really reflect through…
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