Tom Araya Quotes

We just done doing The Blessed Hellride tour and Ozzfest.

I constantly tour, even when I don't have a record out.

I did about a 100 concerts this year. All over the United States. We're cutting back next year to about 40. We generate money for an organization called Mercy Corps.

I always want to be touring.

We toured with Deep Purple a number of times.

Usually, when we go out, it's because we made a new studio album, and that becomes the focus of the tour throughout the world for a year or so.

My first full year of touring, I did 300 days on the road. That was not including the travel time or publicity or anything else - that was just dates. I was home probably less than 50 days that year.

Dweezil and I are going on tour with the band probably starting in the middle of February for a month probably playing a few songs from my new record and then I'll continue on after that tour.

Most years, I do 70 or 80 concerts.

For us, if you're a rock band, there's no way around it. You have to tour. You have to tour a whole lot.

We never got on a big, big tour, but we did a lot of spot dates.

My fans do deserve to see me back out on the road.

I love being on tour and having my own tour bus.

I don't write on tour. There is so much to do day in and day out when you are on the road.

The touring for this album was definitely going to be the most intense touring we've done.

I don't mind doing the Who tours when they come along but I want to get out there and play.

I'm doing a lot of touring and things have been really busy for me.

I had a blast doing the Warped Tour, but it's good to be home, for sure.

I've been touring now since about '68.

Live shows are really big for me. I want to do as many of those as I can.

I have been touring since I got my first band in 1962, so there is no problem there. We are basically performing musicians, so that's what we do.

The tour is like our bread and butter. You don't really get to experience the band unless you see us live.

I enjoyed the idea of going and playing live. My beef was always with Wings that we never played live enough.

Pay-per-view events for us were really just another show while we were out on a road tour.

We've been touring ever since we were able to afford to buy a van, and I don't think we'll ever stop until something falls off or is irreparable.