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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
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
Keith Richards ... was once asked how he came up with all those amazing guitar riffs. His answer? He just starts playing until he makes the right mistake. In other words he's optimistic he will create something good by virtue of getting something "wrong." -- Mark Stevenson
I love a good Slash guitar riff. It's sexy! -- Malin Akerman
Generally my songs are just some riffs slung together as an excuse for a guitar solo. -- J Mascis
In OK Computer, the guitar was already moving towards a tone generator as well as a riff generator. -- Colin Greenwood
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
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
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
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
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

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