System Of A Down Quotes
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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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Life is that perfect fine line between ironies.
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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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Politicians use religion, and they get their troops riled up with religion.
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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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With most of the songs and music that I've composed, irrespective of the myriad videos made, I was always careful not to overly define the experience, leaving room for people to internalize things for themselves, making their experience more integral.
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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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And then we end up in this hospital somewhere really awkward and this woman gives birth to a newborn child and the child is carried out with this blanket that's red, ... So it's like life. So it starts with death and it ends with life. And the soul travels through three different beings a bird, a girl and a newborn baby. So it's kind of my interpretation of reincarnation.
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We're addicted to this concept of civilization - we can't imagine living outside of it because we've had it for 10,000 years, all of what we call history. But according to archaeologists, humanity has been on this planet for millions of years in indigenous form.
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When I was younger, I was listening to a lot of Armenian music, you know, revolutionary music about freedom and protest. In the 70s I was listening to soul and the Bee Gees and ABBA, and funk.
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It's the idea of a multi-sensory experience stemming from music that opened my interest into painting, to be honest.
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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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We first fought... in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.
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I've always worked on all different types of music, some with specific project goals and deadlines and some not. Sometimes I would write a piece of music that is almost like a film score or weird electro pieces, wherever the muse took me, and I still do that.
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I don't want to spend all my time working as an activist. I don't get satisfaction out of it. I'd rather be doing something else. I'm a musician.
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Corporatization is the descendant of industrialization.
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Basically I write songs, and I need for there to be a home for these songs.
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I think every artist should follow their vision, their hearts is what they need to reveal, not something that society is looking out for.
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I think it's my interaction with journalists that has pegged me more as political than my actual records, although they have obviously political aspects to them as well.