Serj Tankian Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“I've worked with some great orchestras and amazing classical musicians, but I don't like the conceptualization of classical music as an elitist form of art.”

“Sometimes a good love song can change the world and create positive energy more than any political song can.”

“Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace.”

“I believe very firmly that indigenous populations had a really good, intuitive understanding of why we're here. And we're trying to gain that same understanding through psychology and intellect in modern civilization.”

“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 rock music - you can't do that in jazz. You can't do that with classical.”

“Life is that perfect fine line between ironies.”

“As long as people are living their truth or their vision, whether they're activists or not, that's the important thing.”

“Capitalism unchecked is not a democratic system.”

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

“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 it takes you. Whether it's using an acoustic guitar, or piano, or electronics as tools, all of these lead to creating different types of songs and I used all of these methods for this record.”