Tom Araya Quotes
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Our album 'Show No Mercy' came out in late '83, and we did three or four shows in San Francisco after the release. That was our first experience with stage-divers, crowd-surfing, people walking on people across an entire crowd.
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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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I was born and raised Catholic, so it's in my blood. I don't go to church... I was born and raised Catholic, which is about the extent of my religion. My parents made one request: that I have my first Holy Communion.
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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.
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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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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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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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I try to incorporate melody. Even though I'm screaming, I still like to think I bring melody into screaming.
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I believe in a supreme being, yeah. But He's an all-loving God.
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No, I have to really focus, especially when I'm writing because I wanna be good at it.
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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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When I do interviews, I enter them with an open mind and try to answer the questions the best I can.
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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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We were not a close family, but that doesn't matter.
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Venom was a band that strongly influenced the image and the idea behind Slayer.
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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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I write, I write, I always write.
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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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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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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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Sometimes when I've gone out and murdered somebody I go and confess and stuff. And then God loves me again.
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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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I just don't write musically, but lyrically, yeah I write.