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There's fifty bands doing my riffs for ever and ever. -- Santiago Durango
Words can have the same kind of magic as riffs can. -- Stone Gossard
Great melody over great riffs is, to me, the secret of it all. -- Steven Tyler
Generally my songs are just some riffs slung together as an excuse for a guitar solo. -- J Mascis
As much as I love heavy riffs, I like The Eagles, Neil Young, Elton John, Crowded House. -- Zakk Wylde
I think the best riffs and the best songs come when you're jamming and having a good time. -- Scott Ian
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
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 riffs. -- Wes Borland
My novels tend to come about from a fusion of two big ideas, creating a critical mass that then fissions, throwing off hundreds of other particles, riffs, tropes and characters. -- Will Self
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
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
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
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
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
Some of the best rock riffs ever written were by Jimmy Page, and I can't really name the songs, but some of the stuff he did on his first and second records is beyond brilliant. -- Joe Perry
I would listen to Little Richard and Fats Domino and Chuck Berry, and I would listen to how they played their riffs, and after I taught myself that, I taught myself to play my own kind of stuff. -- Brian Wilson
All the time I was playing the flute, the lines, the solos, the riffs, the construction, were based on my guitar skills. I did not play the flute to exploit its natural faculties, but I used it as a surrogate guitar. -- Ian Anderson
My biggest influences were 1980s punk and metal. Metallica were my biggest influence because they were good at everything - riffs, energy - but with such an ear for melody, it was hard not to get pulled into it and become a fanatic. -- Corey Taylor
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
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
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
Hendrix was the bass player for Little Richard. We were both left-handed, but we would use a right-handed guitar held upside down and backwards. He developed my slides and my riffs. In fact he used to say, and this is documented, 'I patterned my style after Dick Dale.' -- Dick Dale
If I sit down with an electric guitar, what's going to come out are Sabbath/Zeppelin type riffs, but if I'm sitting behind a piano late at night, I might write something like 'Desperado.' You're not going to write 'Desperado' between a wall of Marshalls and thumping, crushing volume. -- Zakk Wylde
I think Pantera is a type of band that has been documented very, very well over the years. With the past re-releases, we were fortunate enough to have old demos and stuff that never really saw the light of day. But Pantera was not the type of band to waste many riffs or many parts or songs. -- Phil Anselmo
I'm always working on new songs. With the technology these days, any idiot can record on Pro Tools on your laptop. All you have to do is plug a microphone into the input jack and anybody can have their own recording studio. So I'm always down in my basement, singing along to riffs or whoever I'm collaborating with. -- Sebastian Bach
I bathe in basslines, rinse in riffs, dry in drums -- Common
Led Zeppelin is just a bunch of stupid idiots who wrote cool riffs. -- Chris Cornell
I really wasn't needed... Just straightening up riffs, that's all. Just two guitarists doing it instead of one. -- Jimmy Page
Tony Iommi - the undisputed king of demonic heavy rock riffs. In this area, no one had never surpassed him. -- Ozzy Osbourne
God is not looking for incredibly high notes, intricate riffs or award winning ad-libbing. God is looking at the heart. -- Temi Peters
It's got big riffs and really it's a rock and roll album. I think Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver fans will relate to that -- Scott Weiland
Best trumpet: Mike Vax, an alumnus of the Kenton Band, who plays every style with a bright cutting edge, throwing in bop riffs here and there. -- Herb Caen
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
Some audiences can shake and bang their heads on the stage to riffs all night long, but subtlety is an art that must be mastered if you're going to be remembered. -- Robert Plant
Doom is thinking-man's heavy, something you climb into and not only discover the riffs and depth of the music, but also you also climb into yourself and explore the inner environment. -- Mike Scheidt
I make make music in my own time, messing around with beats and riffs I write. Always practicing performing in my room most times I probably look like an idiot dancing around haha. -- Christina Grimmie
You can imagine several scenes from Star Wars? The way they looked? For me, that's how music is. Sometimes I'll be developing riffs for songs, just while I'm sitting around and not playing. -- Ryan Adams
This is one of my favorite things about the Underground: the crashing of the cymbals, the screeching guitar riffs, music that moves into the blood and makes you feel hot and wild and alive. -- Lauren Oliver
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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