Riff Quotes

If you improvise a riff and the crowd immediately reacts to it, you know you're on to something.

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.

In OK Computer, the guitar was already moving towards a tone generator as well as a riff generator.

One thing will lead to another and somebody will come up with a riff or a line or something we build from.

Comedians are really writers who don't have pens and pencils about them, but they riff.

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.

When I write a song, it's all about the riff - the riff first, then the words come later.

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.

No one in the world can beat Ella Fitzgerald as a riff singer.

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.

When I need to nail that riff to the cross, Marshall will always provide the hammer!