Daron Malakian Quotes
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If I was money-motivated, I wouldn't have joined a rock band with three other Armenian guys.
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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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You can't just release double albums and expect people to sit there and devote their time to 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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Politicians use religion, and they get their troops riled up with religion.
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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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Other kids would take their parents to the toy store and I'd take my mom to the record store.
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Music is an emotion, and I put it out there.
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I'll always be a member of System of a Down. That will never change.
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Basically I write songs, and I need for there to be a home for these songs.
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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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I am depressed sometimes, but it's not what keeps me at home or focused on work.
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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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How does a band like System of a Down get big?
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Why don't presidents fight the war? - Why do they always send the poor?
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I ain't got no beef with Obama.
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I don't ever put down bands.