Slayer Quotes
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I don't really have a life philosophy; my thing is just rebelling against pretty much organized religion. That is my main thing, because personally I think it's a crutch for people that are too weak to get through life on their own. I'm the kind of guy that says if I don't see it, then it doesn't work. And nobody can show me God.
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No, my first figure was a SLAYER eagle. And the dragons and the tribals are all I have got. I wish that I only would have done the SLAYER eagle and not the dragons ´coz I like tribals that stand out from a distance. Like you could be a snowblind in the concert and you are still gonna see it. That´s why I like about it.
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If I'm in a corner, I like my corner. It's the coolest corner I've ever been in.
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Of course we are doing this primarily for ourselves, but I know our fans dig most of it, too.
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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.
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It's fun when you are on tour to go a place you are familiar with in any given city. It's like being home away from home.
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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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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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Oh yeah, our first tour in Europe they wouldn't give me the time off from work.
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I write when I have to; I write when the song is done and I deal with the idea and I just go with it and I'll become what that song is all about until I have finished it. And when you do that, it makes the song more visual, it makes it more personal.
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I've never thrown out a TV set out of some hotel's window, but I have thrown a microwave out of one 'coz it was cooler.
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I believe in a supreme being, yeah. But He's an all-loving God.
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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.
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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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We were not a close family, but that doesn't matter.
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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.
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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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Venom was a band that strongly influenced the image and the idea behind Slayer.
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The judicial discretion has been fettered greatly by the Youth Criminal Justice Act.
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Lyrics are always the last thing to get done.
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Venom were the first thrash band i heard on record-it really pushed me to the best!
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This new one was held for a couple months, so I guess it was better, but when we go into thinking our next record tragedy, it traditionally will probably change the distribution again and it will get held up again.
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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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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.