Serj Tankian Quotes

This is such a perfect kind of career for me because I love making videos and being in the studio and being on tour.

I enjoy touring. I enjoy recording the music, I enjoy dreaming it and I enjoy performing it. I also definitely enjoy selling it, because I like to eat.

I've toured the U.S. every single year and I've put a record out every single year whether it was on a major label or not; that doesn't make any difference to me.

If you become famous and don't have a live show to back it up, they're not going to pay you any money.

We want people to see us live before we continue on and call ourselves recording artists.

You know, I didn't have enough money to quit my day job... the myth of the major label deal. Nowadays, you have a tour bus and a stylist and all this stuff. But back then, no way.

I love the road. That's always been my goal. I've said that to many record labels. I want to make records. The road is my favorite. Some people hate the road, I love the road.

I'd love to be a hit in Germany. I'm working on trying to get a gig as David Hasselhoff's opening act.

There's a big difference between doing the odd gig and actually having a record out and your name being on the ticket.

I've always known, before I had a record deal, that the thing is to go out and put on the show. I've been doing that from day one.

I'm gonna sing, and I'm going to make me a lot of money.

We expect to keep our writing sessions going until late spring, then to play some new material in a few secret club dates. The record will likely take a long time and may not surface until 1999!

At 17, I signed a recording contract right out of high school, so I started touring and traveling the world. I sort of missed out on the college experience.

Nowadays, it's like two different arenas, recording and touring. When I started way back in the day, doing both was nothing, you didn't have to think about it, the road and recording.

I really want to put the emphasis on creating music. I want to cut a record. I want to start going on tour.

I'm lucky that I enjoy touring as much as I do. I'm not going to make a living just making records.

I have been touring since I got my first band in 1962, so there is no problem there. We are basically performing musicians, so that's what we do.

I think the reason I got into the music business was basically for the live aspect of it.

I've been putting out records for so long, but I didn't want to tour because I didn't think anybody really cared.

If I'm not on tour or doing a show, I'm in the studio.

If you're playing the clubs, you're either on your way up or your way down.

I constantly tour, even when I don't have a record out.

So I'm in my 51st year of playin' mostly nightclubs. I do some concerts.

But for me, I thought you made a record, you got on a bus, went out and played your shows and made a lot of money. That was the way it was supposed to go down. But there's a lot more to it than that. There are a lot of early mornings, late nights, a lot of traveling, a lot of being away from home, being away from your family.

You can always boil down the life of a musician to touring, playing, and writing.