Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace. – Serj Tankian
People think our musics very aggressive or angry or whatever, and its just the opposite, really… I like laughing. And I like being really calm before a show, and smiley. – Serj Tankian
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 youll have zero capitalism, zero competition – it would just be one giant company. – Serj Tankian
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