Tankian Music Quotes

#1. 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.

Serj Tankian

#2. 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.

Serj Tankian

#3. Don't get like these assholes and fall in love with the fighting. Then you're just setting off bombs because you like the noise they make.

Hugh Howey

#4. I always felt that I was as good as the next person, and I didn't care what they had.

Lenny Wilkens

#5. In the last few years I've been listening to jazz more than anything else. I listen to a lot of world music and experimental here and there.

Serj Tankian

#6. 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.

Serj Tankian

#7. Drink love endlessly and get drunk.

Debasish Mridha

#8. 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.

Serj Tankian

#9. I like African music, and I'm a huge Ravi Shankar fan.

Serj Tankian

#10. People always ask me 'do you think there should be more bands doing political music?' and I say 'absolutely not.'

Serj Tankian

#11. With rock music, the amount of power that you can generate, the intensity behind the intentions of your lyrics that you can really reflect through rock music - you can't do that in jazz. You can't do that with classical.

Serj Tankian

#12. I've always tried to listen to a lot of different music from around the world.

Serj Tankian

#13. In America, there's more of the question, should music be political or should it just be for entertainment purposes, whereas around the world that's not even an issue. I think people just assume that music should be everything.

Serj Tankian

#14. I've worked with some great orchestras and amazing classical musicians, but I don't like the conceptualization of classical music as an elitist form of art.

Serj Tankian

#15. 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.

Serj Tankian

#16. Political statements are usually more direct, and it works with the upbeat music as well, for some reason, the directness of your statements.

Serj Tankian

#17. I write music when I'm free and for no particular project in mind.

Serj Tankian

#18. People think our music's very aggressive or angry or whatever, and it's just the opposite, really ... I like laughing. And I like being really calm before a show, and smiley.

Serj Tankian

#19. It's the idea of a multi-sensory experience stemming from music that opened my interest into painting, to be honest.

Serj Tankian

#20. I'd rather let the music speak for itself.

Serj Tankian

#21. 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.

Serj Tankian

#22. When you don't know what to expect, prepare for the unexpected.

Pierre Omidyar

#23. I think music has the ability to inspire people and to change hearts, and the heart has the power to change the mind, and the mind has the power to change the world.

Serj Tankian

#24. I think nobody wants to hear a sermon. Well, some people do, but maybe not through music or not with me. No one wants to hear me give a speech that way.

Serj Tankian

#25. 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.

Serj Tankian

#26. Are such discussions common among the Iroquois, Miss Grey? They are not

Rose Gordon