Daron Malakian Quotes
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You can't just release double albums and expect people to sit there and devote their time to it.
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Does it bother me that some people are burning their own System CDs and taking money out of my pocket? Not really. This has always been about putting the best possible version of the song in the fans hands. It was like selling an artist's painting before he had finished it.
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Music is pretty much all I do.
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There's no rule that says you have to make records constantly, like clockwork, to continue being who you are.
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Whatever I write has to evolve around my taste in music at that moment, because that always changes.
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Every song I've written is luck, I think; it's luck - 'How did that just happen?'
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You put too many songs on your record, and it ends up like a family with too many kids: some of them get neglected.
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Music is an emotion, and I put it out there.
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I always want to grow and top myself.
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Other kids would take their parents to the toy store and I'd take my mom to the record store.
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Back in the day, when the emperor or the king or whatever waged war, they went to war, too. But that's been lost in time.
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Basically I write songs, and I need for there to be a home for these songs.
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Politicians use religion, and they get their troops riled up with religion.
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Why don't presidents fight the war? - Why do they always send the poor?
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I am depressed sometimes, but it's not what keeps me at home or focused on work.
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How does a band like System of a Down get big?
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I'm not very happy. I'm frustrated with human beings. I'm the guy who just wants to smack people in the face and say, 'Wake up!'
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I'll always be a member of System of a Down. That will never change.
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I don't ever put down bands.
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I ain't got no beef with Obama.