Tom Araya famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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.
-- Tom Araya

#Country #Song #Heavy
Venom was a band that strongly influenced the image and the idea behind Slayer
-- Tom Araya

#Ideas #Band #Venom
I try to incorporate melody. Even though I'm screaming, I still like to think I bring melody into screaming.
-- Tom Araya

#Thinking #Trying #Melody
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.
-- Tom Araya

#Thinking #People #Mind
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
-- Tom Araya

#Thinking #Next #Facts
Fortune is either with you or it's not.
-- Tom Araya

#Fortune
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
-- Tom Araya

#Song #Play #Guitar
No, I have to really focus, especially when I'm writing because I wanna be good at it
-- Tom Araya

#Writing #Focus #Be Good
When I do interviews, I enter them with an open mind and try to answer the questions the best I can.
-- Tom Araya

#Mind #Trying #Interviews
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.
-- Tom Araya

#Strong #Atheist #Believe
I believe in a supreme being, yeah. But He's an all-loving God.
-- Tom Araya

#Believe #Loving God #Yeah
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.
-- Tom Araya

#Book #People #Stuff
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
-- Tom Araya

#Couple #Half #Firsts
I was born and raised Catholic.
-- Tom Araya

#Catholic #Born #Raised
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.
-- Tom Araya

#School #Years #Air
I had to be at least 8 or 9; I was listening to everything on the radio. You name it, I heard every song.
-- Tom Araya

#Song #Names #Listening
I just don't write musically, but lyrically, yeah I write.
-- Tom Araya

#Writing #Yeah
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.
-- Tom Araya

#Song #Trying #Done
Oh yeah, our first tour in Europe they wouldn't give me the time off from work.
-- Tom Araya

#Europe #Giving #Firsts
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
-- Tom Araya

#Couple #Moving #Home
A good wine has many qualities I think. If drunk moderately, it is healthy and good for your heart.
-- Tom Araya

#Wine #Heart #Thinking
I follow politics, but I don't like to discuss it.
-- Tom Araya
I write, I write, I always write.
-- Tom Araya

#Writing
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 Araya

#Book #Thinking #People
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?
-- Tom Araya

#Song #Mean #Remember
Whatever had been on the radio in the '60s; I mean we were always listening to the radio
-- Tom Araya

#Mean #Listening #Radio
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.
-- Tom Araya

#Song #Book #People

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