Serj Tankian Quotes

No matter how long you play rock n roll songs might change just as the balls are there, the rock balls. And that's what's important to us.

To me, if you're a musician, then you're interested in music, and if you're interested in music, then you should listen to a lot of different types.

Obviously I got known for some other songs early on, and some of those were rock'n'roll songs. Some of them were melodic pop songs. And I've done lots of different things, as you know, but every so often I get drawn back.

I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing; it makes you feel like an idiot.

We're a gumbo of American music, and aren't ashamed to play pop or soul or rock because we all grew up on radio.

I've been lucky to listen to lots of different types of music.

Some people come to our shows and think they're gonna spend the night just listening to love songs, and they're pretty much surprised cause we do a lot of rock and roll.

There are times when what's happening in rock is the best music in the world, and there are times when there is nothing worthwhile at all.

I don't limit my taste. There's some jazz that I like and there's some opera. I've been listening to what was essentially country music, but it crossed over to rock.

Everybody was tellin' me that I had to do something different, and I kind of agreed that I did need to vary it a little bit. I still love some rock 'n' roll too.

Classical music is for listening but rock and roll is to have fun with.

The other guys in Hootie were into rock. I brought the country influence.

When I first started singing, I didn't know which direction to take - I sang rock & roll and all kinds of things.

I didn't like progressive jazz or anything. Rock was something I like to listen to.

I like soul, I like rock, I like new wave, I like punk music, I like blues, I like jazz, and I was brought up on all of them from a young boy all the way to my teenage years, when I was wild and crazy, in college.

I've always liked all kinds of different types of music.

Rock music is a funny thing: You can actually take it too far sometimes, and then it's not rock music anymore - it's something else, but it's not rock.

Me, who's educated classically, I went toward rock music 'cause it was sort of a natural evolution from where I was playing with my brother. But I was always drawn back into classical music.

Being a fan of pop music and rock bands, I am a reluctant convert into the art of instrumental rock music.

I just love music. Every genre of music: country, rock. I originally first loved punk rock. Pop punk. I don't know, just rock in general. And getting to rap. And now K-pop. Different types of music. I love everything.

I didn't want to box myself into writing just rock music because you can try to force it into moments that don't want it.

I really truly love all styles of music. A lot of people say that, but the first station they turn to when they get in the car is a rock station. I don't always do that. I really enjoy everything. But, of course, I'm a rock shred guitar player first.

If you actually go back and listen to my first album, there are some things on there that are kind of rock 'n' roll.

I hope our fans are able to experience that they are also on an odyssey to the 'Metal Galaxy' with us. We've incorporated different types of music into this album and we hope that fans are able to feel our determination to a new departure.

I'm a music fan first and foremost. I can find the beauty in Jellyfish and U2 just as much as Opeth and Lamb of God, just as much as I can with Rush and Yes.