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Tom Araya

"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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Assegid Habtewold

"I've been playing with Blackwell over 20 years. We used to play when I first went to Los Angeles. Blackwell plays the drums as if he's playing a wind instrument. Actually, he sounds more like a talking drum."

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"We were engaged three-and-a-half weeks after the first date."

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"At synods, I usually wait about a week before I speak. First I listen. I feel the temperature. I listen to what has been said, what has not been said, and what I think needs to be said at that point."

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"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."

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"My first encounter with a Kelly was not on a musical scale. It was from primary school. Dave and I went to primary school together and we were like boy scouts."

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Assegid Habtewold

"My first record came out in 1961 and then I had one come out in 1962 and then I had two that came out in 1964."

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"The first thing I learned was the theme from Peter Gunn."

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"It is strange how one feels drawn forward without knowing at first where one is going."

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"We can use techniques in modifying things, in controlling things, but the first impulse has to be something that you simply cannot make just out of technique, or else it becomes perfectly evident that it is nothing but technique that you're exercising."

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"But when I would see the surrogate, my first instinct, my first reaction would be jealousy, because she was doing what I wanted to do."

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Tom Araya
"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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Tom Araya
"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."

Blood

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Tom Araya
"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!"

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Tom Araya
"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."

Work

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Tom Araya
"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."

Death

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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."

People

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Tom Araya
"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."

Home

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Tom Araya
"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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Tom Araya
"I follow politics, but I don't like to discuss it."

Politics

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

Focus

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