Back Quote by Angus Young

It was really different this time, because we did everything in the studio and thought out the writing and song structures. Before this album…

— Mitch Lucker

There's such a huge difference between a great arrangement of riffs and a song. Sometimes the two can be the same. But the difference…

— Corey Taylor

A riff can take on the aspect of a chorus in a listener's psyche.

— Jack White

Even though there's these songs and whoever the hell put it in the internet, if there's any good riffs in them, we raped the…

— Kerry King

Every riff had to be perfect and heavy, collectively what we wanted it to be. If there was one person in the room who…

— Johnny Christ

Every cool riff has already been written by Black Sabbath. You're either playing it faster or slower or backwards, but they wrote it first.

— Rob Zombie

The way that we imitate each others' riffs is something that other bands don't do as much. If we're jamming with a jazz band,…

— Mike Gordon

'Back In The Saddle' - I never realised what a good riff that was, or at least how much it satisfied me. And when…

— Joe Perry

The idea of a hypnotic riff as the prime mover of a piece of music has been around for a long time, whether you're…

— Jimmy Page

To me, the hook of the riff is what makes a great guitar recording. It's the backbone of the whole song. When you have…

— Dwight Yoakam

Everybody knows that Black Sabbath started everything and almost every single thing that people are playing today has already been done by Black Sabbath.…

— Rob Zombie

So the actual riffing came out of us just sitting there and doing it the way I think some people think we really did…

— Joel Hodgson