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I love a good Slash guitar riff. It's sexy! -- Malin Akerman
No one in the world can beat Ella Fitzgerald as a riff singer. -- Ethel Waters
I think people will always love a heavy Sabbath riff because it's fundamental to rock. -- Stone Gossard
Comedians are really writers who don't have pens and pencils about them, but they riff. -- Carl Reiner
For me, the music dictates the melody. Give me a riff to sing over, you know? -- Zakk Wylde
When I need to nail that riff to the cross, Marshall will always provide the hammer! -- Dan Hawkins
If you improvise a riff and the crowd immediately reacts to it, you know you're on to something. -- Dimebag Darrell
In OK Computer, the guitar was already moving towards a tone generator as well as a riff generator. -- Colin Greenwood
When I write a song, it's all about the riff - the riff first, then the words come later. -- Evan Dando
One thing will lead to another and somebody will come up with a riff or a line or something we build from. -- Johnny Ramistella
The worst thing to happen at the Oscars would be if nothing happened. You want something unscripted, something to riff on, something kinda out there. -- Seth MacFarlane
You would find in a lot of Zep stuff that the riff was the juggernaut that careered through and I worked the lyrics around this. -- Robert Plant
A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by. -- Barry Mann
I think often times if a guitar riff is centered around the chorus or if it follows the chorus, then it often times turns into the actual hook. -- Ryan Tedder
Songs are out there - they're waiting to be grabbed. I start with a phrase, musical and lyrical, words like 'I don't think so' and a nice riff. It rolls from there. -- Ronnie Wood
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
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 a strong riff, it's the rocket fuel for the track. -- Dwight Yoakam
The first song that made me interested in music was 'Oh, Pretty Woman' by Roy Orbison. It was the guitar intro, that riff, that I really liked and made me listen in a different way. -- Geddy Lee
Sometimes one of us will have a riff or a bass line from home but it really gels when we come together. We really have a strong special chemistry that we take advantage of when we get together. -- Chad Smith
Back In The Saddle' - I never realised what a good riff that was, or at least how much it satisfied me. And when we play it live, it comes across much better than I ever expected it to. -- Joe Perry
Of all the things I've done, the first 'Strongman' story was one of the easiest things to write. It was almost fully formed from the get-go. It's almost a 'Dark Knight Returns' riff, except you have a battle-worn Mexican wrestler instead of Batman. -- Charles Soule
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 is a song doesn't necessarily need a riff, whereas a riff doesn't necessarily mean you've got a good song on your hands. -- Corey Taylor
One of my favorites has always been 'Swap Meet.' One of the reasons why I like that is it's a song that's in a drop-D tuning, and of course, also being a guitar player, it's one of the songs that I really like the riff on it. -- Chad Channing
I like to decide the night before Thanksgiving that I'm gonna do it, and I'll see what riff raff is around. Then I get that last-minute surge of energy. But if I had two weeks to plan, sometimes I wish I wasn't doing it. But very seldom does that happen. -- Amy Sedaris
I am never happy with what I do, so I try not to watch stuff that is filmed with me in it because I am always like, 'Oh, I could have done that a little bit better,' or, 'I could have done that differently - that riff could have been a little better.' -- Josh Young
I'm an American designer. It's important to riff on that. I remember, when my mom and I first came to the States, she was so shocked that everyone was so dressed down in sandals and shorts. It's not quite like that in Asia. To give that a superluxurious makeover? For me to make street wear? It's sort of chic to do it. -- Jason Wu
The main riff for 'SandMan' was just something I wrote one night. -- Kirk Hammett
For me, the music dictates the melody. Give me a riff to sing over, you know?" -- Zakk Wylde
I've never written jokes. I mean, I'll write things on a piece of paper and riff on them onstage. -- David Cross
Life is like a great jazz riff. You sense the end the very moment you were wanting it to go on forever. -- Sheila Ballantyne
One thing will lead to another and somebody will come up with a riff or a line or something we build from. -- Johnny Ramistella
Once you understand that there's a spiritual math, add soul to the science and subtract the riff-raff. 24-7-365, cause 9 to 5 ain't alive. -- Kool Moe Dee
Those dogs of democrats and liberal riff-raff will see that we're the only chaps who haven't been stultified by the ghastly period of peace. -- Karl Marx
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
When you have a clear idea of what your character is trying to accomplish, it makes it a lot easier to riff on things. -- Glenn Howerton
I really connect with music that has a point, that's not just a heavy riff and cool sounds. I always like it to have a purpose. -- Piggy D.
Excuse me while I light my spliff, Good God I gotta take a lift, From reality I just cant drift, That's why I'm staying with this riff -- Bob Marley
Woodrell's storytelling is as melodic, jangly and energetic as a good banjo riff.... Sammy Barlach's story is a tragedy, but the telling of it is a pleasure. -- Valerie Sayers
It was Scotty Moore's guitar riff [in "I Want You, I Need You, I Love You"] when he was doing The Steve Allen Show that got me into rock music. -- Elton John
Everybody knows that Black Sabbath started everything and almost every single thing that people are playing today has already been done by Black Sabbath. They wrote every single good riff... ever. -- Rob Zombie
The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought, choked, half strangled, or surrendered to with humiliation. -- Anne Rice
I was just obsessed with soul singers who had these big powerful voices. I used to listen to Aretha, Whitney, Mariah and try and imitate them, note for note and riff for riff. -- Jess Glynne
The vocals are the very last thing I do. So, it's kinda the opposite: with country. it's singing and guitar first, but with rock, I worry about the riff and music, vocals last. -- Hank Williams III
So that's the challenge for me and that has always been the challenge - finding that melody, that riff, that thing that just lights me up and makes me feel like it's Christmas. -- Steve Vai
I don't want you to play me a riff that's going to impress Joe Satriani; give me a riff that makes a kid want to go out and buy a guitar and learn to play. -- Ozzy Osbourne
I think Batman Returns is right for riffs. I love it but it's the ultimate Tim Burton movie. There is so much that happens that's crazy and there are a ton of things to riff. -- Baron Vaughn

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