Tom Araya Quotes

• 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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  Music, Country, Song

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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  Gone, Stuff, Sometimes

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• Venom was a band that strongly influenced the image and the idea behind Slayer.

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  Ideas, Band, Slayer

  "Interview: Slayer lyric". www.askmen.com.

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• Fortune is either with you or it's not.

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  Fortune

  "Interview: Slayer lyric". AskMen Interview, www.askmen.com.

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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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  Strong, Atheist, Believe

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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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  Thinking, Trying, Melody

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• I follow politics, but I don't like to discuss it.

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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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  Song, Book, People

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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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  Heart, Wine, Thinking

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• I believe in a supreme being, yeah. But He's an all-loving God.

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  Believe, Loving God, Yeah

  "Slay Ride". Interview with John La Briola, www.westword.com. July 22, 2004.

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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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  Thinking, Band, Next

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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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  Thinking, People, Mind

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• I write, I write, I always write.

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  Writing

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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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  Blood, Parent, Catholic

  "Reining in the Blood". Interview with Jason Handelsman, www.miaminewtimes.com. July 19, 2007.

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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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  Writing, Focus, Be Good

  "Exclusive! Interview With Slayer Vocalist/ Bassist Tom Araya". Interview with Brian Davis, www.knac.com. January 4, 2005.

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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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  Book, Thinking, People

  "Exclusive! Interview With Slayer Vocalist/ Bassist Tom Araya". Interview with Brian Davis, www.knaclive.com. January 4, 2005.

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• I was born and raised Catholic.

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  Catholic, Born, Born And Raised

  "Reining in the Blood". Interview with Jason Handelsman, www.miaminewtimes.com. July 19, 2007.

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• I just don't write musically, but lyrically, yeah I write.

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  Writing, Yeah

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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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  Book, People, Stuff

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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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  Song, Mean, Remember

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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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  Europe, Giving, Firsts

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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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  Song, Trying, Done

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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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  School, Air, Blood

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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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  Couple, Here And There, Days Off

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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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  Mind, Trying, Answers

  "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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