Maturity Quote by Johnny Christ

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

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

The '80s was an interesting, confining time for songwriters, so we were just sort of riffing in our own language, off to the side.

— Nancy Wilson

To me and my band, guitar riffs are what it's all about. We know that every time we jam on a great riff, we've…

— Dimebag Darrell

Every song that we wrote for the first album made it. We didn't think about writing a bunch of songs and picking the best…

— Brendon Urie

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

— Jack White

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

We knew we wanted to put a lot of melody into it - a lot more than what we did on our first album.

— John Otto

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

With Rage, we wrote riff rock and had rap vocals, so we didn't really concern ourselves with melody for the most part.

— Tim Commerford

Each song had a different way of coming about. In some, the music was written first while others it was the lyrics. We didn't…

— Elena Tonra

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