Daron Malakian Quotes

Why don't presidents fight the war?/ Why do they always send the poor?.. B.Y.O.B. (Bring Your Own Bombs).

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[As for the group's political bite, there's no greater example than the recent single, B.Y.O.B., inspired by a TV ad for the Army.] It glamorized going into the Army,.. It made it look like a party where everybody was going to have a good time.

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System of a Down are one of the most misunderstood bands around. I mean, Armenian rock? What the fuck is that? Political? I could name so many more of our songs that aren't about politics than ones that are. And for a long time, everyone thought Serj wrote all of our tunes. Until this album came out, people thought he wrote all the lyrics. So there are so many different misunderstandings of System of a Down that I don't even let it bother me anymore. I'm just kind of used to it. Our first bio said something like 'four guys based out of LA who are Armenian and political,' and, well, it wasn't really right at all. I mean, we are all Armenian, but we didn't plan that.

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Back in the day, when the emperor or the king or whatever waged war, they went to war, too. But that's been lost in time.

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What we do is just all over. What [singer Serj Tankian] is playing on the keyboard sounds like the [Disneyland] Main Street Electrical Parade. I like it because we have never done anything like that before.

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