Serj Tankian Quotes

I try to stay away from any genre. I like to just make music, and it just is what it is.

I don't write poems and put them to music. Just let things flow.

There's an open door now more than ever to be making any type of beats that you want.

I don't think music can be held. I don't think artists can be put into boxes or places. It's all about creating and making the best music you can.

I love conducting. What I'm tired of is music administration. I don't want that. I just want to make music.

I love putting the music together. It's like art.

I used to look at composing music as problem solving. But as I get older, it's not about problem solving anymore. There are no solutions, because there are no problems. You just turn the tap and it flows out.

I kind of make music where and when I can, and I guess that's why I collaborate so much.

That was the appealing thing about comics: There literally is no budget in comics. You're only limited by your imagination.

I think everyone should feel like they can make music, they can create music.

I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself.

I am so happy that I didn't go to school and I didn't have anyone to tell me how to position my fingers on the piano correctly. And what you do with music and what is the correct way to write it and what is not the correct way to write it.

I love making music. I love being involved in arranging music. It's very natural to know what I want to hear next and come up with ideas that are variations of what might be good.

I think that was the whole idea behind doing the solo record was to be able to do musically whatever I wanted to do.

I've always envied people who compose music or paint, because they don't have to be bothered with the sort of crude mess that language normally is, in everyday life and in the way we use it.

I always like to write the songs, and they get turned loose into the world, and who knows what happens to them. That's the joy of being a songwriter. You get to hear what other people do, interpretation-wise.

That joy of a creative environment, without any restrictions, is hard to leave.

It's a great thing not trying to make music for a label but just for the love of music again.

I never have a genre in mind when I'm making music because I just like to be free. I feel that placing a genre on your music is limiting yourself.

In my first label Shrapnel Records I wasn't expected to do anything except the creative music that I wanted to do. I was my own boss, which is great.

One of the great things about working for Netflix is that they haven't placed any restrictions on content or artistically.

That's what I feel like my music represents - having no limits or restrictions.

I just love to sit and go, 'Let's just write a song and not worry about how it needs to be'.

We need to give artists a lot of free room to create.

So now the floodgates are open to the delight of pure form, whatever its origin. Anything goes.