Riffs Quotes

I'll come in with a string of riffs and direct the musical ideas. But you still need a band and their input to make the ideas come alive. You can't underestimate band chemistry.
Billy Corgan

Alive, Ideas, Chemistry

Great melody over great riffs is, to me, the secret of it all.
Steven Tyler

Great, Secret, Melody

As much as I love heavy riffs, I like The Eagles, Neil Young, Elton John, Crowded House.
Zakk Wylde

Love, Young, House

If I get even five per cent of my ideas out and documented before I die, I'll be lucky. I'm not in danger of running out of riffs or ideas anytime soon. They overwhelm me and it's hard to find time to deal with them.
Jello Biafra

Time, Hard, Find

Well, I think writing is basically about time and rhythm. Like with jazz. You have your basic melody and then you just riff off of it. And the riffs are about timing.
Kathy Acker

Time, Writing, Off

I play and I've played in heavy bands, but when I write for myself, I don't particularly feel like writing huge rock riffs. It just doesn't work for me and my voice.
James Iha

Work, Rock, Writing

I really don't have an ear for pitch. I can't sing at all, I can't hum melodies and I can't write riffs.
Patrick Carney

Write, Sing, Melodies

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 songs and put in the new ones.
Kerry King

Good, Hell, Put

'Kraken' is set in London and has a lot of London riffs, but I think it's more like slightly dreamlike, slightly abstract London. It's London as a kind of fantasy kingdom.
China Mieville

London, Fantasy, Abstract

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, or I am jamming with a jazz band, I have to catch myself, the tendency is always to do that.
Mike Gordon

Others, Band, Jazz

Generally my songs are just some riffs slung together as an excuse for a guitar solo.
J Mascis

Together, Guitar, Songs

There's fifty bands doing my riffs for ever and ever.
Santiago Durango

I've always been interested in shaping music in odd ways, with odd riffs and that's been probably something that I've continued on with my studies with improvisation as I'm working with people.
Roscoe Mitchell

Music, Working, Interested

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