Creativity Quote by Richard Lloyd

It's always a pleasure when you can compose guitar parts from a strong vocal and not just put the melody on top of guitar…

— Wes Borland

With guitar riffs, we always look for something that 's a little bit special. We've always found that it is harder to come up…

— Angus Young

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

I play guitar and I'm always trying to find out the latest kinds of riffs.

— Sixto Rodriguez

I want to do some different kind of songs, but say I want to do riffs, but I don't come up with any riffs…

— Stephen Malkmus

I think the best riffs and the best songs come when you're jamming and having a good time.

— Scott Ian

I've always loved big riffs and chunky guitars.

— Zacky Vengeance

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

Philosophically, I think riffs that start with E repeating itself are almost guaranteed to be great.

— Paul Gilbert

To me, the hook of the riff is what makes a great guitar recording. It's the backbone of the whole song. When you have…

— Dwight Yoakam

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

— Joey Jordison

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