- Communism
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Communism
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pretending that we live doesn't make us alive.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd rather let the music speak for itself.
- Personal
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's probably a combination of personal and non-personal matters that have led us to where we are musically.
- Calm
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes it's better to have a benign dictator than a dumb democracy, to be honest.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think anytime that you go to the extreme of any mode of economics, be it capitalism or communism, you have these feedback mechanisms that make the system turn in on itself.
- Competition
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Democratic
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- Nov 07, 2020
Capitalism unchecked is not a democratic system.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People get so attached to a position which they identify themselves with that they just spurt it out, but they can't really give you a viable reason why they feel that way.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best way to do that is to pick up a new instrument or an instrument that you don't typically write on and see where it takes you. Whether it's using an acoustic guitar, or piano, or electronics as tools, all of these lead to creating different types of songs and I used all of these methods for this record.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
People always ask me 'do you think there should be more bands doing political music?' and I say 'absolutely not.'
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes a good love song can change the world and create positive energy more than any political song can.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
You listen to Bob Dylan and you can't help but think of the 60s, it's very relational and if artists are true artists and not just mere musicians they need to be truthful because the music doesn't come from them it comes from the universe and it's to be shared. At best, we're skilled presenters, and I say that at best.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe very firmly that indigenous populations had a really good, intuitive understanding of why we're here. And we're trying to gain that same understanding through psychology and intellect in modern civilization.
- Expression
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a more direct avenue to expression as an artist than I ever would as a politician.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hate injustice, and I can't help but speak against it. But I don't want to get involved in politics.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
As long as people are living their truth or their vision, whether they're activists or not, that's the important thing.
- Fan
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like African music, and I'm a huge Ravi Shankar fan.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I might write a book. I like writing. People have asked me if I would get into politics, but I think I feel a lot more effective being a representative of truth through the arts.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
My two interests are spirituality and politics. I would mesh them in some way; maybe try to figure out the politics of spirituality, or the spirituality of politics. Or maybe come up with this really crazy naive solution for the end of civilization.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020