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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.
- Tom Araya
#Everything
#Listening
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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.
- Tom Araya
#Death
#Die
#Mind
#People
#Thinking
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
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#Just
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#Satan
No, I have to really focus, especially when I'm writing because I wanna be good at it.
- Tom Araya
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#Focus
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#Wanna
#Writing
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
#Books
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#Like
#People
#True
When this genre of music started in America, Metallica was up north in California, we were in Southern California, Anthrax was on the East Coast. We each developed our own metal music, and after 30 years, we're still playing our metal music.
- Tom Araya
#America
#Metal
#Music
#Own
#Still
I just don't write musically, but lyrically, yeah I write.
- Tom Araya
#I Write
#Just
#Lyrically
#Write
#Yeah
To fans in a festival setting it's like a picnic. You want to have a good time with your friends in that crowd. And in the background you hear the band play, 'Oh, that's my favorite song!' everyone is there to enjoy the afternoon and that's about it.
- Tom Araya
#Fans
#Good
#Picnic
#Song
#Time
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
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#Listen
#Mean
#Music
#Remember
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
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#Home
#New
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#Wife
Besides Slayer, which is a full-time job, I raise animals. I have a ranch in Texas. My wife takes care of the animals when I'm on tour. When I get home, I become a ranch hand.
- Tom Araya
#Animals
#Care
#Home
#Job
#Wife
A good wine has many qualities, I think. If drunk moderately, it is healthy and good for your heart.
- Tom Araya
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#Good
#Heart
#Qualities
#Wine
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.
- Tom Araya
#Experience
#Late
#People
#Three
#Walking
Fortune is either with you or it's not.
- Tom Araya
#Either
#Fortune
#You
Oh yeah, our first tour in Europe they wouldn't give me the time off from work.
- Tom Araya
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#First
#Me
#Time
#Work
Sometimes I'll sing the same verse through the entire song, because the other verses aren't clicking. And when they do come to me, I'm in the middle of that same verse!
- Tom Araya
#Me
#Middle
#Sometimes
#Song
#Through
I follow politics, but I don't like to discuss it.
- Tom Araya
#Discuss
#Follow
#Like
#Politics
Venom was a band that strongly influenced the image and the idea behind Slayer.
- Tom Araya
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#Behind
#Image
#Slayer
#Venom
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 don't 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
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#Hell
#I Am
#Life
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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.
- Tom Araya
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#Church
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