Tom Araya Quotes

United States, Musician
June 6, 1961

Tomás "Tom" Enrique Araya Díaz (Spanish pronunciation: born June 6, 1961) is a Chilean-American musician, best known as the lead vocalist and bassist of the American thrash metal band Slayer. Araya is ranked fifty-eighth by Hit Parader on their list of the 100 Greatest Metal Vocalists of All Time.

Whatever had been on the radio in the '60s; I mean we were always listening to the radio.

Tom Araya Slayer
- Listening
- Radio
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 Slayer
- Songs
- Listen
- Figure

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

Tom Araya Slayer
- Politics
- Discuss
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 Slayer
- School
- Blood
- Learned
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 Slayer
- Song
- Listening
- Radio
Fortune is either with you or it's not.

Tom Araya Slayer
- Fortune
I was born and raised Catholic.

Tom Araya Slayer
- Born
- Catholic