Serj Tankian Quotes

I love music in general. It's like girls and their clothes and shoes; when you love shoes, you love shoes. So, for me, I think it's a really dangerous thing to say I'm going to write the best dance song in the world.

I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.

It's very demanding to make up your own music.

You have got to make new music, that is the way that I look at it anyway.

Whether I'm writing solo stuff, electronic stuff, or material for Motley, I just write to write. I come up with it and put things in different piles.

I'm just trying to work out how to write music now, because I've never had the opportunity where my number-one priority is writing music. I don't know how my brain works yet.

Lately, I love creating ideas on my acoustic guitar. I sit in my living room for hours trying different chords.

I'm just writing less of my own music lately - I go in and out of phases a lot. Sometimes there are these accidents that just sort of happen, that are kind of waiting around the corner. I guess Modest Mouse was one of them.

'Feel It Still' came around pretty much as organically as you can put a song together.

I'm always writing music.

I started writing music around 20 years old.

I'm not one of those guys who can just take a guitar into a room and come out with a song. I need all my instruments dotted around.

There are times when I want to be plainspoken about my feelings in a song. But there are other times when it's really good to try and get my head around different kinds of song structures, or maybe I might get turned on by trying to write a song that would fit in this one scene in a movie. And by the end of all this, you just end up with a bunch of different ideas. And songs are really just ideas.

I have this really beautiful Martin guitar, and it just kind of writes songs for me.

I don't go into any album with pressing issues. I just try to write songs.

I've been writing and composing songs since I was 5 years old.

It would be fun to write with Adele, actually. She seems like a fun girl to write with.

Ever since I picked up a bass, I've written songs.

My favorite travel pastime is writing music, either with my guitar or on my computer.

When I graduated high school, I bought a guitar and, at first, didn't really think I'd get into the songwriting thing as much as I did. But after learning a few songs of other people's to play on the guitar, I got bored with that and just started writing songs on my own, and that's kinda how it came about.

I usually write my music on a piano, and I really enjoy performing that way, because that actually shows how the music was in my mind before it actually became an electronic song.

There's many, many ways to write a song. But generally, sitting down at a table and writing is not one of them.

I'm not used to not having enough time to live with the songs. Usually, if I write something, I live with it for a little while.

I'm never too ambitious when I go into the studio. I always know that I'm just going into the studio to work on or try to develop an idea that I have for a song.

Ultimately, I'm a fan of music. I describe writing music sometimes as hieroglyphics, like, you know, excavating, gently brushing off these artifacts and discovering the song underneath it all. It seems as if it is already written in it.