Serj Tankian Quotes
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 with it. You can express it a lot more powerfully.
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If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken.
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Just as water is a key ingredient to growth on the farm, capital is required for businesses to thrive.
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Fiction about mining has a long tradition - Emile Zola's 'Germinal' and Upton Sinclair's 'King Coal' come to mind - and most readers will be aware of the industry's harsh conditions.
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Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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It would be nice to be on the charts again, nice to be recognised.
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Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.
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I am a just man.
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All of a sudden I discovered that I'm allergic to caviar. It was the perfect metaphor for my life. When I was only able to afford bad caviar, I could certainly eat my fill of it.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.
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Each song is a small universe to me. Each song has a story of its own. Each has a full life to express in order to be complete, so it often happens that the building to a big crescendo feels right in the recording or writing process.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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I was signed at 19 years old to a major label, and dropped by the time I was 22.
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My grandparents lived in Hollywood, and I was surrounded by the romanticism of movies ever since I was a child.
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You need to get down among the people who are the dirtiest and dustiest, and the depravity, and you need to see Christ's light shining there.
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I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.
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Low interest rates are a big opportunity for investment. But the issue is that this money should go to the real economy, not the financial economy.
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Don’t question in the dark what God showed you in the light.
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I had never danced all my life until I shot for my first song in 'Chirutha.'
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Our logo for Lanvin is a mother and a daughter. I've always said, 'It's not a lion, and it's not a horse. It's a mother and a daughter.' I find the logo very emotional.
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If my life were a song it would probably be titled 'Roller Coaster', up and down all the time.
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My hatred is a thousand times more powerful than all your good intentions.
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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 with it. You can express it a lot more powerfully.
