Riff Quotes

34 Riff quotes by 33 unique authors

I love a good Slash guitar riff. It's sexy! — Malin Akerman
I don't want you to play me a riff that's going to impress Joe Satriani; give me a riff that makes a kid want to… — Ozzy Osbourne
Those dogs of democrats and liberal riff-raff will see that we're the only chaps who haven't been stultified by the ghastly period of peace. — Karl Marx
Well, I think writing is basically about time and rhythm. Like with jazz. You have your basic melody and then you just riff off of… — Kathy Acker
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
Many people think of me as just a riff guitarist, but I think of myself in broader terms. As a musician I think my greatest… — Jimmy Page
In OK Computer, the guitar was already moving towards a tone generator as well as a riff generator. — Colin Greenwood
A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough… — Barry Mann
Everybody knows that Black Sabbath started everything and almost every single thing that people are playing today has already been done by Black Sabbath. They… — Rob Zombie
So that's the challenge for me and that has always been the challenge - finding that melody, that riff, that thing that just lights me… — Steve Vai
The main riff for 'SandMan' was just something I wrote one night. — Kirk Hammett
I think often times if a guitar riff is centered around the chorus or if it follows the chorus, then it often times turns into… — Ryan Tedder
When I write a song, it's all about the riff - the riff first, then the words come later. — Evan Dando
Once you understand that there's a spiritual math, add soul to the science and subtract the riff-raff. 24-7-365, cause 9 to 5 ain't alive. — Kool Moe Dee
One of my favorites has always been 'Swap Meet.' One of the reasons why I like that is it's a song that's in a drop-D… — Chad Channing
When you have a clear idea of what your character is trying to accomplish, it makes it a lot easier to riff on things. — Glenn Howerton
I think people will always love a heavy Sabbath riff because it's fundamental to rock. — Stone Gossard
If you improvise a riff and the crowd immediately reacts to it, you know you're on to something. — Dimebag Darrell
The worst thing to happen at the Oscars would be if nothing happened. You want something unscripted, something to riff on, something kinda out there. — Seth MacFarlane
You would find in a lot of Zep stuff that the riff was the juggernaut that careered through and I worked the lyrics around this. — Robert Plant
The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought, choked,… — Anne Rice
Once upon a time . . .” “In the beginning was . . .” That’s the way it always starts off. Every story, gospel, history,… — Steven Tyler
For me, the music dictates the melody. Give me a riff to sing over, you know? — Zakk Wylde
When I need to nail that riff to the cross, Marshall will always provide the hammer! — Dan Hawkins
Sometimes one of us will have a riff or a bass line from home but it really gels when we come together. We really have… — Chad Smith

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