Araya Mengesha Quotes

The monster in my head lingers still,
but he is a good monster. ~ Pamela Araya

In shows where the audience wants to try to understand the work, the work is placed in a space of possibility where it becomes a subject of inquiry rather than being subject to conclusive interpretations. This is the gift I receive when I go abroad. ~ Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook

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

Sometimes when I've gone out and murdered somebody I go and confess and stuff. And then God loves me again. ~ Tom Araya

Growing up, my dad drank a lot of wine, so I got a taste for, and learned how to enjoy it. He spoke a lot about flavors and differences in tastes of wine. Also, our manager, Rick Sales, is a big wine drinker; he goes to a lot of wine-tasting classes, and he's taught me about the qualities of wine. ~ Tom Araya

Women in Thai society have been placed in the space of the home. It is possible that women have assuredly taken up that place without thinking too critically about it. ~ Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook

When I heard the idea of a Slayer wine, I tasted the wines they suggested for us. To be honest, I was a bit skeptical at first before I tasted it, but once I tried it, I thought, 'You know what? This is actually really good. A really fruity and round type of flavor for a red wine.' It's very flavorful and tasted awesome! ~ Tom Araya

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

I eventually shifted to video. Video opened up new conditions, or freed me from old conditions ... ~ Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook

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

When I began making art, I just thought I liked it. As a woman who was placed in spaces with various conditions, conventions, and restrictions on self-expression, turning to art - whether visual art, writing novels, or writing articles - was to gain freedom from the space around me. ~ Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook

My art practice eventually arrived at a point where I had freedom from various limiting conditions; the institutional mindset is not airtight and isn't altogether ideologically programmed. There are ways of escaping. ~ Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook

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

I believe in a supreme being, yeah. But He's an all-loving God. ~ Tom Araya

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

I write, I write, I always write. ~ Tom Araya

A good wine has many qualities, I think. If drunk moderately, it is healthy and good for your heart. ~ Tom Araya

I extol life so much that I cannot make art. ~ Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook

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. ~ Tom Araya

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

Fortune is either with you or it's not. ~ Tom Araya

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

Ideologies are mental prisons that produce blindness. ~ Fernando Araya

From the heaviest of the heavy to classical to country, that's what I listen to, I listen to a variety and I enjoy good music, good songs. ~ Tom Araya

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

As long as it's good music, that's what's important. ~ Tom Araya

Venom was a band that strongly influenced the image and the idea behind Slayer. ~ Tom Araya

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

It is interesting to ask why people who come to view art suddenly posture themselves as full of righteousness. It's as if my artwork suddenly lends a higher moral ground to everyone else in the Thai art world. ~ Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook

I was born and raised Catholic. ~ Tom Araya

I recommend anybody go to a bookstore, go down the self-help or new-age section, and just walk those aisles. See what book jumps out at you; there's a good chance it's a book you need in your life. That's basically how I find the books that I read. ~ Tom Araya

When I do interviews, I enter them with an open mind and try to answer the questions the best I can. ~ Tom Araya

Parkinson's dementia. Or was it something else? Only time would ~ Jane E. Mengesha

Search, discover, innovate, know, find... keep looking. ~ Fernando Araya

What is difficult is to keep the sweet voice with an aggressive message. ~ Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook

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

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

Thai society rarely attempts to control literature in the same way that it vigilantly polices visual art. It's ironic because people in this society are more aware of literature than they are of art. ~ Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook

When you're in a club or a theater or even an arena, yeah, you want visuals, you want a good light show. But Slayer has always been about the sound. We have to sound good. It has to be tight. ~ Tom Araya

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