Albums Quote by Mitch Lucker

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

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

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

— Evan Dando

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

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

I think that songwriting changed when groups started spending more time in the studio.

— Ray Davies

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

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

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

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

I saw that something changed in terms of the way I approach writing. I don't know. Before, everything was just sort of pieced together;…

— Alex Turner

Obviously yeah, but our first album took us five years to put together, to get signed and to put it out, we had a…

— B-Real