People Quote by Joel Hodgson

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

If you improvise a riff and the crowd immediately reacts to it, you know you're on to something.

— Dimebag Darrell

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

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

When I write a song, it's all about the riff - the riff first, then the words come later.

— Evan Dando

Riffs are a repeating thing. They come back to you. Some of the things on 'Back in Black' were ideas we had knocked around…

— Angus Young

The idea of just improvising and riffing can sometimes be at the expense of story.

— Jim Rash

The thing is, the way we write is all jams and bits and pieces that get pieced together and sometimes things are written with…

— Danny Carey

We didn't like the way that our 'Behind the Music' came out at all, to say the least, and so it made everybody kind…

— Gina Schock

Riff is one of the roles I've always been naturally drawn to, although whether I ever thought I'd get to do that... I knew…

— Mike Faist

I think what we tried to do lyrically, vocally and musically was to capture a sound.

— Stephen Mallinder

I think often times if a guitar riff is centered around the chorus or if it follows the chorus, then it often times turns…

— Ryan Tedder