Famous Quotes

"People think our music's very aggressive or angry or whatever, and it's just the opposite, really... I like laughing. And I like being really calm before a show, and smiley."

Serj Tankian on Music

More quotes about Music

• "One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain."

  Bob Marley on Music

• "If music be the food of love, play on."

  William Shakespeare on Music

• "Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything."

  Plato on Music

• "Without music, life would be a mistake."

  Friedrich Nietzsche on Music

• "I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water."

  Ray Charles on Music

More quotes by Serj Tankian

• "We first fought... in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change."

• "Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace."

• "When I was younger, I was listening to a lot of Armenian music, you know, revolutionary music about freedom and protest. In the 70s I was listening to soul and the Bee Gees and ABBA, and funk."

• "Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace."

• "I hate injustice, and I can't help but speak against it. But I don't want to get involved in politics."