Tom Araya

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

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I was born and raised Catholic. ↗

— Tom Araya

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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. ↗

— Tom Araya

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I write, I write, I always write. ↗

— Tom Araya

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If it were bad songs, yeah, I'd speak up, but they're not bad songs. ↗

— Tom Araya

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No, I have to really focus, especially when I'm writing because I wanna be good at it. ↗

— Tom Araya

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Oh yeah, our first tour in Europe they wouldn't give me the time off from work. ↗

— Tom Araya

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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

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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. ↗

— Tom Araya

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

— Tom Araya

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