#th

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. ↗

— Serj Tankian

#civilization #firmly #gain #good #had

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. ↗

— Serj Tankian

#anytime #capitalism #communism #economics #extreme

I think every artist should follow their vision, their hearts is what they need to reveal, not something that society is looking out for. ↗

— Serj Tankian

#every #follow #hearts #i #i think

I'm a huge Beatles fan, but I've only really gotten into them as an adult. ↗

— Serj Tankian

#beatles #fan #gotten #huge #i

I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can't ever remember a time when I didn't. ↗

— Quentin Tarantino

#i #life #long #loved #movies

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. ↗

— Serj Tankian

#although #bringing #comfortable #days #entertaining

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. ↗

— Serj Tankian

#any #capitalism #capitalistic #company #competition

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

#been #else #experimental #few #here

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. ↗

— Serj Tankian

#feel #get #give #identify #just

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

#after #i #important #important thing #learned