Top 90 Quotes & Sayings by Shavo Odadjian
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Last updated on September 16, 2024.
I believe a band has to evolve rather than making the same album over and over again, because if you do, sooner or later people are going to get tired of you.
When I was a kid, I used to make skateboarding videos, and I would pretend to be in a band and make rock videos that I'd edit with two VCRs.
I was born born April 22. I got married May 22. System of a Down started started blowing up when I was 22.
I would never want to put my name on a crappy thing. So, everything that has my name on it is pretty high quality: I put my heart and soul into it.
I'm one of the most, like, 'wanting-to-tour' guys in the band.
People see citizens who are anti-war anti-American or anti-patriotic and that's so wrong.
We're a life band, a social band.
The people who hate us, I don't think they are wrong. That's what they think, and I promote thought.
I have a lot of ideas for videos, and I want to pursue directing. This is one of the goals I have always had.
So the universe is the sacred silence and sleep, and the kids are the disorder. So how do you control the disorder in that universe? You can't. To me, that's 'Toxicity.'
I never wanted to be in a heavy-metal band.
I haven't sold one painting. I have either given them as gifts or just kept them. It's like babies you know. It's, like, hard to sell a baby.
When I listen to a band like Pink Floyd, I don't know the names of the individual songs, I know the full albums. That's what we want for our albums.
Every human being sees something different in a painting, so I want every single person to have their own thoughts about our songs.
I didn't know you had to do so much to be a director. I thought, 'I can do it. I can write a treatment.' I didn't know about shot lists.
There's a lot of bands that don't release an album every year. There's a lot of bands that take three, four or five years off here and there, but they don't say 'hiatus,' so no one really notices it.
Glendale is such a mecca of our fans. They are the most important things. It's the fans and then music, then we come third or fourth.
I don't like record company people very much, so I don't want to be one of them.
I started a project with the RZA back in '09 called Achozen, but we never actually dropped that.
I come from the '90s where there was rap-rock and I was never a huge fan of it. I loved Rage, I loved some of the other stuff that was going on, but it got really oversaturated and it got kind of cheesy at some point - we can all say that.
We don't preach, but we just tell you what we think, and it provokes thought.
I was a Puma guy for a while. When System got signed, we got a deal with Puma, and they would just give me carte blanche, bro. I would walk into the Puma office and they would just give me whatever I wanted. I would just take it. I'd walk out with boxes and boxes, so I had every color, every style that I wore.
There was a time in my life when I drank. I wasn't the best me when I was a drinker.
Oh, I know the Kardashians quite well.
I like having things to do. I like to always be busy.
System is always System for me. If System's touring or making a record, I'm there.
We're musicians and despite that, we get more political questions than musical questions, which kind of irks me.
We are always writing music.
Yeah, I like the Kardashians a lot.
I used to always wear Vans back in the day. I had every type of Vans and Converse there was. I was a Chucks guy and a Vans guy.
We've been a band since 1993. I don't think we're ever gonna be broken up.
We played a 600-seater in France that was amazing. I got so excited when I saw the place. Just vibewise, with the crowd, it was amazing.
I want to put my harshness into rap videos and create a new style.
I think we all want maybe 'Lost in Hollywood' to one day be a single.
We're not into the rock/rap movement.
I have a pretty good track record of what I put my name on, so I don't want to ruin that.
We had labels offering us deals the first year we formed - 1995 - but we were afraid of them going, 'Let's change this and that.' We had labels telling us to get rid of our singer. I look back sometimes and go, 'Imagine if we had done that-what a shame it would have been?'
I like to think we're like a cross between Pink Floyd and Slayer.
I've always questioned death and birth and life. Where do we go? Are we here now? Or is this just one of the lives that we live?
We want to sound like a band you can't clone or even categorize. We like to throw everyone off.
I'm not a giant rock star. I play one on TV, though.
I would skate in the '80s. I started skating with Jordan 1s, and that was a big deal. I looked different, because no one was getting with Jordan 1s. That became my little thing. I grew up in Hollywood.
We're a band that keeps writing and recording - we don't know when it's over.
I want to be proud of everything I do.
System of a Down is my lifeline. It'll never go away.
When something's taboo, the kids get a sense where they want to do it because it's taboo.
I've always been someone that always likes to do things, and I don't like to be sitting around: I get nervous when I sit around.
I don't want every member of System to have their own label. It will be like a circus.
I don't like videos that explain the song. I like it to be kind of abstract, like a painting.
I used to be very good friends with Kanye.
I'm used to being in a band and collaborating.
We don't want to name our songs after the choruses, so we sometimes come up with random titles. We don't care if people don't know the names of the songs, we want them to play it and never get sick of it. We want it to be exciting, melodic, heavy and emotional. It can make you cry and laugh and be angry.
People either hate us or love us.
We're four guys that play music. We're not a part of any genre. We just happened to have come out in 1998.
A band is a real band if they can play not just their songs, but they can just play.
Well here's how I look at it, I've always been someone that's liked to have things on my plate, it just keeps me going.
So, there's a lot of 22 in my life. That always followed me and has always been good to me. I also have a condition that is synesthesia, where you relate different senses with each other. So every time I think of numbers, since I was a kid, each number has had a color in my head.
RZA helped me make my first beat, and he rhymed over it, and that made the 'Babylon A.D.' soundtrack. That first track was very raw and unmixable, but it's so anthemic. After that, I started learning how to make tracks. It was a process, but once you stop learning you're dead.
When I hear a song, I close my eyes and see a lot of stuff happen, and I love making those visuals come to life. It's always been a passion.
Chop Suey!' was really heavy, but it had a lot of melodic parts. It was fast and frenzy.
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