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Spirit moves through all things.
Day is just a collection of hours.
Science has failed our mother Earth.
I'd rather let the music speak for itself.
Pretending that we live doesn't make us alive.
Life is that perfect fine line between ironies.
Capitalism unchecked is not a democratic system.
I like African music, and I'm a huge Ravi Shankar fan.
Corporatization is the descendant of industrialization.
We have the power to change our lives, and the world around us.
Awareness in our society has flipped all types of injustice on its head.
The percentage of Americans in the prison system, has doubled since 1985.
I'm a huge Beatles fan, but I've only really gotten into them as an adult.
I've always tried to listen to a lot of different music from around the world.
What does civilization mean to you, and what would its ending bring to the world?
Sometimes it's better to have a benign dictator than a dumb democracy, to be honest.
Science fails to recognize the single most potent element of human existence...faith.
Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace.
Touring and putting out records is fun and cool, but I've been doing it for a long time.
I have a more direct avenue to expression as an artist than I ever would as a politician.
The living ideas of the dead are more powerful and effective than the dead ideas of the living.
I hate injustice, and I can't help but speak against it. But I don't want to get involved in politics.
Anti-depressan ts Controlling tools of your system Making life more tolerable Making life more tolerable
It's probably a combination of personal and non-personal matters that have led us to where we are musically.
Sometimes a good love song can change the world and create positive energy more than any political song can.
People always ask me 'do you think there should be more bands doing political music?' and I say 'absolutely not.'
I think that the memory of Armenia's genocide opened my eyes at an early age to the existence of political cynicism.
It's the idea of a multi-sensory experience stemming from music that opened my interest into painting, to be honest.
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.
As long as people are living their truth or their vision, whether they're activists or not, that's the important thing.
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.
As an artist, you never want to write the same song again, you always want to challenge yourself to writing in a different way.
With 'Elect the Dead,' I learned how to make a rock record without a rock band and make the rock record I've always wanted to make.
I think every artist should follow their vision, their hearts is what they need to reveal, not something that society is looking out for.
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.
Political statements are usually more direct, and it works with the upbeat music as well, for some reason, the directness of your statements.
To deny a genocide because of convenience and expediency having to do with an illegal war or occupation in Iraq to me, is double hypocritical.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
You can say a lot more with a poem than you can with a song, but with a song you can really be more powerful with it. You can express it a lot more powerfully.
I like having songs that go from the personal to the kind of inter-relational, universal, because everything comes back to micro/macro and everything's tied in.
We first fought the heathens in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.
I'm not comfortable with just entertaining. Although I like entertaining, I also like bringing forward the truth of our times as minstrels used to in the old days.
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.
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.
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.