Riffs Quotes

Pete Townshend is one of my greatest influences. More than any other guitarist, he taught me how to play rhythm guitar and demonstrated its importance, particularly in a three-piece band.

Riffs are a repeating thing. They come back to you. Some of the things on 'Back in Black' were ideas we had knocked around on tracks before that: 'That bit - maybe we should take a chunk of that and slug it in here.'

I've got so much material; like, it feels as if every day I'm coming up with so many riffs.

'Master of Reality' rules; it's one of my favorite records of all time. It has some of the most evil riffs on it - and some of the sexiest riffs as well.

I don't play a lot of fancy guitar. I don't want to play it. The kind of guitar I want to play is mean, mean licks.

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.

There are no prog elements to Adrenaline Mob; it's very song-oriented, with shredding and grooves.

For the most part, I've been influenced by black singers and singers I couldn't sound like. Whenever I tried to do a dark note or a bent note, I would just sound like Hootie And The Blowfish.

This is a brilliant military victory that makes Europe and the Christian world tremble. It sets an example and encourages all the oppressed people in the Moslem world.

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.

I really consider myself more of a rhythm guitarist than a soloist.

I've always loved the electric guitar: to hold it and work it and hear what it does is unreal.

I bathe in basslines, rinse in riffs, dry in drums

All of my writing has guitars behind it, even the novels.

I like being able to do dueling leads, and it's fun to be able to shred.

Man, don't get me started on Pat Travers. That dude writes killer blues rock and roll riffs.

I'm more of a strumming guitarist, instead of a lead soloist guitarist.

When it came to rock, I was always drawn to guitars.

Describing certain sounds, there's a common language that guitar players have.

Let's face it - the electric guitar is way sexier than the acoustic.

That's all life is, I guess. Just a bunch of riffs. Look at me: I'm wearing a tie. Why am I wearing a tie? It's because I saw an adult wear a tie and I thought, Oh, that's what people do. We're all just trying to be what an adult is.

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.

Using string bends instead of just playing regular, unbent notes can definitely help give certain riffs a cooler, heavier edge.

We always mess around with riffs and stuff and kind of jam out during sound checks, but we never actually started playing covers live until we started goofing off a little bit more on stage.

If I pick up a guitar, I don't practise scales. I never have. I come up with something I haven't done before, new approaches to chord sequences, riffs, rhythms, so it becomes composition. It's not like the music I'm doing is just a single thread.