Causes Quote by Serj Tankian

I like African music, and I'm a huge Ravi Shankar fan.

— Serj Tankian

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

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

“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

Forgivness is The ultimate sacrifice. Eloquence belongs, To the conqueror.

— Serj Tankian

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

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

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

Life is that perfect fine line between ironies.

— Serj Tankian

Pretending that we live doesn't make us alive.

— Serj Tankian

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

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