Serj Tankian Quotes

I started to perform when I was 12... I don't talk too much. I let the music do the talking.

There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It's always been my way of expressing what, for me, is inexpressible by any other means.

The whole process of music for me is something absolutely honest and really naked and bare, so I never forced myself to write in French.

What I couldn't say verbally I was able to express physically through the guitar.

I love being in the studio. Expressing myself that way is really cool.

If people would like to come to my concerts I'd love them to come. And if they like the music that I make, I love that too. But I do not make music for other people. I make it to please myself.

If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.

I've loved music. It was my first everything, but fashion and clothes is just the next step.

I don't feel like I'm on a mission. I'm trying to play music that I like to play and like to listen to.

I keep quiet and let the music do the talking.

I just make the music and then the music speaks for itself.

If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand.

My outlet is my music, and it's been this way since I was 4 years old.

I really sing songs that move me. I'm not in show business. I'm in the communications business. That's what it's for me.

I'm totally open to exploring different types of music. I just have to always remember to be true to who I am.

Years from now, after I'm gone, someone will listen to what I've done and know I was here. They may not know or care who I was, but they'll hear my guitars speaking for me.

Music is about expressing things you can't in everyday life.

Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words.

I find in music there's a space and a language I can use to express things in ways I can't describe conversationally.

It's real primal; I just like playing music.

I do music because I can just pick up my guitar and sing, and completely satisfy, instant gratification. I don't need a script, I don't people, I don't need anything, cameras, I just have myself and my guitar, or keyboard.

What's the point of a song if you can't be honest?

Don't write anything you can phone. Don't phone anything you can talk. Don't talk anything you can whisper. Don't whisper anything you can smile. Don't smile anything you can nod. Don't nod anything you can wink.

I love classical music and have been playing violin since I was seven. Music helps me to express feelings in a way words often cannot.

I just love making music, and I wouldn't want to stop.