Always Quote by Mike Gordon

I think when I feel I'm at my best is when I'm on stage, and it's my version of jazz because it's just riffing…

— Billy Crystal

You're just sort of searching for this 'thing' and sometimes you get it and sometimes you don't. All music is imperfect, but in jazz…

— John Abercrombie

I've got so much material; like, it feels as if every day I'm coming up with so many riffs.

— Joey Jordison

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

— Evan Dando

We're [with Robbie Robertson ] jazz musicians. The context may be rock 'n' roll but it's still jazz. It's jazz and that means improvization...you…

— Van Morrison

I think that the jazzy approach that I have is based on the way that I hear music and in the way I play…

— Jimmy Chamberlin

I think there is just this inherent understanding between us at a subconscious level when we play. It's like we anticipate each other's next…

— Edward Kowalczyk

I think that people should learn about that. In most music, there's one way that you do something, and that's the only way. In…

— Billy Higgins

I've never been known as a riff kind of artist.

— Joe Bonamassa

I don't separate one era of jazz from another, because I listen to everybody... Everybody takes from everybody else and adds their own thing…

— Sonny Criss

Sometimes one of us will have a riff or a bass line from home but it really gels when we come together. We really…

— Chad Smith

The focus of my playing is the groove, and every time I find a new rhythm, I find I can write a bunch of…

— Stone Gossard