Tom Araya quotes
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“From the heaviest of the heavy to classical to country, that's what I listen to, I listen to a variety and I enjoy good music, good songs.”
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“Venom was a band that strongly influenced the image and the idea behind Slayer”
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“I try to incorporate melody. Even though I'm screaming, I still like to think I bring melody into screaming.”
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“As far as thinking about death and murder and various ways of killing people and how people die... I probably have the most twisted mind in Slayer.”
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“Yeah, yeah I think that's one of the biggest misconceptions towards the band. The biggest one is that we're Satan worshippers, but next to that just the fact that we're normal”
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“Fortune is either with you or it's not.”
-- Tom ArayaSource : "Interview: Slayer lyric". AskMen Interview, www.askmen.com.
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“That was the reasoning behind learning to play bass, and then after that it was more like it was neat to play songs together - for me to play bass and for him to play guitar”
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“No, I have to really focus, especially when I'm writing because I wanna be good at it”
-- Tom ArayaSource : "Exclusive! Interview With Slayer Vocalist/ Bassist Tom Araya". Interview with Brian Davis, www.knac.com. January 4, 2005.
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“When I do interviews, I enter them with an open mind and try to answer the questions the best I can.”
-- Tom ArayaSource : "SLAYER's TOM ARAYA: JEFF HANNEMAN's Death 'Has Changed Everything'". Interview with Brian Aberback, www.blabbermouth.net. October 22, 2013.
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“I am not an atheist; I believe in God. But my religion ends there. I have my own personal belief system that is so strong it allows me to do what I do. I dont have to worry about going to Hell because of Slayer, you know? Everyone has a personal belief system and believes in life somehow.”
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“I believe in a supreme being, yeah. But He's an all-loving God.”
-- Tom ArayaSource : "Slay Ride". Interview with John La Briola, www.westword.com. July 22, 2004.
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“I read true crime books, and I read when people do case studies of stuff. I'm into books like that. Case studies or forensics or murder - all that good stuff.”
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“We did like 12 shows, then we did the entire Ozzfest with the first half completely booked; then we did the second half with a couple days off here and there”
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“I was born and raised Catholic.”
-- Tom ArayaSource : "Reining in the Blood". Interview with Jason Handelsman, www.miaminewtimes.com. July 19, 2007.
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“I went to school for about 2 years on a technical course, and I learned a lot. I learned about air mixture ratios and all the stuff; I learned how to draw blood.”
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“I had to be at least 8 or 9; I was listening to everything on the radio. You name it, I heard every song.”
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“I just don't write musically, but lyrically, yeah I write.”
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“I would have to work on the song and figure out how they wanted the song done, because they're such high-intensity songs. We figure that out first, then I go back and listen to it and go over and rehearse stuff with it and try to get a feel for the words.”
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“Oh yeah, our first tour in Europe they wouldn't give me the time off from work.”
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“We just bought a new house, so my wife's been doing all the moving and other stuff, so I would like to go home and just sit and enjoy all that for a couple months before I gotta start playing again”
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“A good wine has many qualities I think. If drunk moderately, it is healthy and good for your heart.”
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“I follow politics, but I don't like to discuss it.”
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“I read a book recently by a psychiatrist who was able to interview a few serial killers and she had a thesis on how you could figure these people out. And she thinks that there are things that could tell you whether someone has the potential to do that.”
-- Tom ArayaSource : "Exclusive! Interview With Slayer Vocalist/ Bassist Tom Araya". Interview with Brian Davis, www.knaclive.com. January 4, 2005.
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“After that I didn't listen to music as much because '70s music just wasn't... I remember all the songs, but it wasn't because I was into them, you know what I mean?”
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“Whatever had been on the radio in the '60s; I mean we were always listening to the radio”
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“People are not in good shape to where they have to question their own belief system because of a book or a story somebody wrote, or a SLAYER song.”
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