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Corporatization is the descendant of industrialization.
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In terms of political things, I think it's important to be more direct in terms of political statements. I think in terms of philosophical and things that you plant things and see them grow lyrically or musically, it's okay to be subtle.
Serj Tankian System Of A Down
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I've got my own studio, and I've got four- to five-hundred unreleased tracks. I've got stuff that's electronic, orchestral, jazz, I've got rock, I've got metal, you know, I don't have polka.
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Harout Pamboukjian is one of the biggest Armenian folk singers in the world. In the '70s, he was making these records that were really Zeppelin-influenced.
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I think the gift of music is it's intuitive capability. I think music is a powerful medium because it co-inspires. It inspires the artist who then inspires the listener, and it's a back-and-forth process. Because it's intuitive, the truth has to be defined intuitively. It can't be preached, it can't be pushed. It's got to normally go across organically and make someone feel something, and that's the power of music.
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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 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.
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I think that the memory of Armenia's genocide opened my eyes at an early age to the existence of political cynicism.
Serj Tankian System Of A Down
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My personal relationship with music is an imperfect harmony because I never studied music, but here I am not just writing for bands but full orchestral sections and doing all this composition, and I never learned the right way of doing things so I have a lot of dissonant sounds and things that are brought to my attention, and generally I leave them that way because I like those imperfections.
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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 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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If you allow for a purely capitalistic society, without any type of regulation at all, you will get one monopoly that will eat all of the smaller fish and own everything, and then you'll have zero capitalism, zero competition - it would just be one giant company.
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How does a band like System of a Down get big?
Daron Malakian System Of A Down
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We [americans] self-regulate ourselves, we self-censor ourselves a lot in this country instead of having someone else censor us so we can blame them. That's not good, either.
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I'd rather let the music speak for itself.
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I think music is an intuitive force. It's this beautiful wave that connects all of us and inspires us, and I think music has the ability - when you listen to a song, you're not immediately thinking about the lyrics or what's going on in the mind of the writer, you're feeling the song.
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The most important thing about music that I've learned after all this time is that to me, it's a way of reaching the truth.
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Sometimes it's better to have a benign dictator than a dumb democracy, to be honest.
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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!'
Daron Malakian System Of A Down
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If you're using live bass versus orchestral bass, you've got to make sure that you're not stepping on the toes of the other elements, so you've got to balance it out.
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A lot of pop music is based on trying to make people remember it so that they'll buy it. To me, it was not about that.
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The percentage of Americans in the prison system, has doubled since 1985.
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I'll always be a member of System of a Down. That will never change.
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