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I ain't got no beef with Obama.
Daron Malakian / Singer-Songwriter
Beef
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Masturbation is great for the right arm
Daron Malakian / Singer-Songwriter
Arms
Masturbation
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Masturbation is good for the right arm.
Daron Malakian / Singer-Songwriter
Arms
Masturbation
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Music is an emotion, and I put it out there.
Daron Malakian / Singer-Songwriter
Emotion
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I like to watch retarded people have sex, am I alone?
Daron Malakian / Singer-Songwriter
People
Sex
Watches
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People's attention spans don't run too long these days.
Daron Malakian / Singer-Songwriter
Attention Spans
Spans
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I would expect another Scars album before another System album.
Daron Malakian / Singer-Songwriter
Albums
Scar
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I'll always be a member of System of a Down. That will never change.
Daron Malakian / Singer-Songwriter
Member
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I don't get it when people complain that baseball games are too long.
Daron Malakian / Singer-Songwriter
Baseball
Games
Complain
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Why don't presidents fight the war? - Why do they always send the poor?
Daron Malakian / Singer-Songwriter
War
Fighting
President
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Politicians use religion, and they get their troops riled up with religion.
Daron Malakian / Singer-Songwriter
Troops
Politicians
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I am depressed sometimes, but it's not what keeps me at home or focused on work.
Daron Malakian / Singer-Songwriter
Work
Home
Focused
Work Home I Am
Work Home Me
Work I Am Me
Home I Am Me
Am
Depressed
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Every song I've written is luck, I think; it's luck - 'How did that just happen?'
Daron Malakian / Singer-Songwriter
Luck
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You know, even U2 took a little time off, and then they came back with a new sound.
Daron Malakian / Singer-Songwriter
Little Time
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My dad is my biggest influence on me as a musician, even though he's not a musician.
Daron Malakian / Singer-Songwriter
Influence
Musician
Dad Me He
Biggest Influence
Dad Me Influence
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In the Middle East in the summertime, to keep cool, a lot of people sleep on the rooftops.
Daron Malakian / Singer-Songwriter
Cool
East
Middle
Middle East
Rooftops
Summertime
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If I was money-motivated, I wouldn't have joined a rock band with three other Armenian guys.
Daron Malakian / Singer-Songwriter
Armenian
Joined
Rock Band
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I was always searching for something bigger, faster and better, and Slayer came up with that.
Daron Malakian / Singer-Songwriter
Faster
Slayer
Better Always Something
Searching
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Other kids would take their parents to the toy store and I'd take my mom to the record store.
Daron Malakian / Singer-Songwriter
Kids
Mom
Parent
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You can't just release double albums and expect people to sit there and devote their time to it.
Daron Malakian / Singer-Songwriter
Release
Devote
Double
Expect
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Whatever I write has to evolve around my taste in music at that moment, because that always changes.
Daron Malakian / Singer-Songwriter
Evolve
Taste
Music Moment Always
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There's no rule that says you have to make records constantly, like clockwork, to continue being who you are.
Daron Malakian / Singer-Songwriter
Clockwork
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I would never cancel a tour unless I had real reasons and personal things that require my undivided attention.
Daron Malakian / Singer-Songwriter
Attention
Personal Things
Cancel
Reasons
Require
Tour
Unless
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You put too many songs on your record, and it ends up like a family with too many kids: some of them get neglected.
Daron Malakian / Singer-Songwriter
Neglected
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In Glendale, where I live, there's a street called Broadway. The bottoms of the light posts have swastikas on them.
Daron Malakian / Singer-Songwriter
Broadway
Light
Posts
Street
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I like structuring verses, choruses, but sometimes the verses might be a tango and the choruses might be death metal.
Daron Malakian / Singer-Songwriter
Tango
Verses
Metal
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System of a Down is the music that I wanted to buy but couldn't find at the store. It's the band I wanted to be a fan of.
Daron Malakian / Singer-Songwriter
Store
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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.
Daron Malakian / Singer-Songwriter
Kings
War
Wages
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I'm not very happy. I'm frustrated with human beings. I'm the guy who just wants to smack people in the face and say, 'Wake up!'
Daron Malakian / Singer-Songwriter
Frustrated
Smack
Wake Up
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I'll be honest with you: politically, I have no issue with people, but my beef sometimes is with religion at the end of the day.
Daron Malakian / Singer-Songwriter
Beef
End Of The Day
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I don't understand some of the music I hear on MTV or the radio, because they don't mention the times we live in. They have nothing to do with nothing.
Daron Malakian / Singer-Songwriter
Mtv
Radio
Mention
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A lot of times, I don't feel responsible for the songs myself. But that's my job or my place in life: to keep my search and catch the ideas before they pass me by.
Daron Malakian / Singer-Songwriter
Life Myself Me
Catch
Pass
Search
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But love is just as important as politics to me. They both exist in the world, you know? And if you dont reflect the entire world around you, then youre leaving something out.
Daron Malakian / Singer-Songwriter
Important
Leaving
Love Is
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I just think religion is something... It could be a beautiful thing for the individual, but when it becomes organized, that's when religion starts taking a kind of ugly turn to me.
Daron Malakian / Singer-Songwriter
Religion
Individual
Organized
Ugly
Just
Thing
Me
Beautiful Thing
Could
Something
Starts
Taking
Turn
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Superman told me... that we needed to make a double... type of record... and so I answered: 'Okay, Superman. We will make... a double type of record but it won't be a double album because... Batman... didn't want a double album'
Daron Malakian / Singer-Songwriter
Albums
Records
Want
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I guess you'd say I'm a gearhead. It's not just guitars; I have five or six drum sets, a bunch of keyboards... It's like Guitar Center exploded, and all the cool stuff dropped in my backyard. I'm a really lucky guy, I have to admit.
Daron Malakian / Singer-Songwriter
Cool
Bunch
Five
Lucky
Lucky Guy
Six
Admit
Backyard
Center
Dropped
Exploded
Guess
Sets
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I don't think when I'm doing music. Things just happen. I've even taken my clothes off while performing. But then I'm so shy that I can't even take my clothes off in the dressing room, even though it's just the other guys in the band in here with me. It's really weird.
Daron Malakian / Singer-Songwriter
Performing
Shy
Music Me Weird
Dressing
Dressing Room
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Does it bother me that some people are burning their own System CDs and taking money out of my pocket? Not really. This has always been about putting the best possible version of the song in the fans hands. It was like selling an artist's painting before he had finished it.
Daron Malakian / Singer-Songwriter
Artist
Hands
Song
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In 'Kill Rock n' Roll,' the choruses came about at the moment I was listening to a lot of the Supremes, and if you listen to that part, you can hear a melody and a harmony there that's not too far away from what the Supremes would probably be doing, but there's heavy guitars in the back.
Daron Malakian / Singer-Songwriter
Far Away
Harmony
Heavy
Melody
Guitars
Hear
Rock
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As a musician, I don't think I'm the greatest guitar player. I'm a bigger fan of the drums than I am the guitar; I just happen to play guitar. I play drums almost every day at my house. I wrote a lot of songs behind the drum kit, just having the music and vocals in my head and playing the rhythm.
Daron Malakian / Singer-Songwriter
Guitar Player
Musician
Rhythm
Almost Every Day
Music Guitar Day
Drum
Play Drums
Vocals
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A lot of MTV's programming is hip-hop based, and the messages are usually all about bling bling. A lot of hip-hop artists sing about stuff that's more important, but they seldom get heard. The ones who get heard are the ones saying, 'Think about yourself. Make your money. It's all you. Everybody have a good time and party.'
Daron Malakian / Singer-Songwriter
Messages
Mtv
Programming
Time Good Money
Seldom
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It's important not to take yourself too seriously, ... and I think sometimes people take us a lot more seriously than we take ourselves, especially when it comes to politics. Politics, for me, is a reflection of the world I live in. But love is just as important as politics to me. They both exist in the world, you know? And if you don't reflect the entire world around you, then you're leaving something out.
Daron Malakian / Singer-Songwriter
Love Is
Reflection
Thinking
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