Daron Malakian
Daron Malakian
Daron Vartan Malakianis an Armenian–American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer. He is best known as the guitarist, songwriter and second vocalist of the rock band System of a Down and as the lead vocalist, lead guitarist and songwriter of the band Scars on Broadway. Like the rest of the Hollywood-based band System of a Down, he is of Armenian ancestry, but he is the only member to actually have been born in the United States. Daron Malakian is known for...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionGuitarist
Date of Birth18 July 1975
CityLos Angeles, CA
CountryUnited States of America
If I was money-motivated, I wouldn't have joined a rock band with three other Armenian guys.
I'm so inside of it that maybe that's a little tough for me to tell, but I don't see too big of a difference. I see them both as one record, you know? Not to compare us to, like, the Beatles, but the only thing I can compare it to is, like, you listen to the 'White Album' and it's a double album, but, like, they're just a bunch of great songs.
I would never cancel a tour unless I had real reasons and personal things that require my undivided attention.
He's gone so far to find no hope/ He's never coming back.
Basically I write songs, and I need for there to be a home for these songs.
I'll always be a member of System of a Down. That will never change.
I don't get it when people complain that baseball games are too long.
I am depressed sometimes, but it's not what keeps me at home or focused on work.
I always want to grow and top myself.
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.
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.
Whatever I write has to evolve around my taste in music at that moment, because that always changes.
Music is an emotion, and I put it out there.
My dad is my biggest influence on me as a musician, even though he's not a musician.