Serj Tankian Quotes

I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape.

I can't imagine life without singing.

To me, music has to be about freedom. It's the most important thing in my life.

If not for music, I would probably be a very frustrated scientist. It's one way to answer the question, 'What is the meaning of life?' I feel music answers it better.

Music was always ever present when I was growing up, and it's continued to be the most important and intrinsic part of me. It kept me from going off the rails as a kid, and it gave me rare purpose and self-confidence that I couldn't find from anything else.

Music is an expression. It's almost like a diary in my life, you know. You express your perceptions and your view on life - your world view.

I feel it's much easier to be honest or be myself in songs when I'm playing. That's why I felt, 'You know, I'm going to write the truth.'

Music is a spiritual event and a means to realize freedom.

Music is something you can't really put in terms like in a sport, like running or football - that you win if you score more. In music, there's nothing like that.

Music has always taken me to my 'thinking place' - the one place that makes me dwell on the meaning of things and ponder why things are the way they are.

My songs are about who I am.

Playing music and singing are my forms of meditation.

Music is really something that makes people whole.

Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me.

I believe that music is a force in itself. It is there and it needs an outlet, a medium. In a way, we are just the medium.

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

I don't meditate before I play or compose, but I see playing and composing as meditative acts.

What does music mean to me? I don't think I would really be much without it, without it coming through me. It's my means of communication, my means of growth, my means of transportation from one point in my life to another.

Art is about profundity. It's about connecting to everything that it means to be alive, but you have to act.

I am deeply in tune with my heart and core, and it's made me a better writer, artist, and most of all woman. It's made me more myself.

Guitar is the best form of self-expression I know. Everything else, and I'm just sort of tripping around, trying to figure my way through life.

Songwriting is like going to church. I'm connecting to something, and it's rewarding in really important ways. I don't need to share it with anyone to feel good about it.

Singing gives me a lot of energy.

If I walk away from music, I walk away from myself.

That's what I enjoy most about my music - that it heals in its own time and makes us look at ourselves in its own time.