Daron Malakian Quotes
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My dad is my biggest influence on me as a musician, even though he's not a musician.
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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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Politicians use religion, and they get their troops riled up with religion.
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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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Whatever I write has to evolve around my taste in music at that moment, because that always changes.
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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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I'll always be a member of System of a Down. That will never change.
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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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Music is an emotion, and I put it out there.
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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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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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I ain't got no beef with Obama.
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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 don't ever put down bands.