Guitar Riff Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. I love a good Slash guitar riff. It's sexy!

Malin Akerman

#4. 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

#5. I didn't even write the lyrics down. I got in the booth, I put down a little guitar riff and the idea I had was it was going to be really simple, I just want it to be all about the lyrics and I just literally sang the lyrics.

Benji Madden

#6. The stars may fall, but God's promises will stand and be fulfilled.

J.I. Packer

#7. 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

#8. Is n't God upon the ocean Just the same as on the land?

James Thomas Fields

#9. Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain Here earth and water seem to strive again, Not chaos-like together crushed and bruised, But, as the world, harmoniously confused: Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, all agree.

Alexander Pope

#10. 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

#11. Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.

Saint Francis De Sales

#12. Fundamentally, I'm profoundly influenced by hip-hop, so whatever I do is going to bear that seal.

Adam Mansbach

#13. 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

#14. Shoes are the finishing touch on any outfit and it is important to complete a look with the perfect pair!

Tracy Reese

#15. Language was a vast, complicated tapestry. The key to communication was finding a common thread.

Tessa Dare

#16. 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

#17. Some five decades later, writer Terry Sullivan was inspired by Mary's life story to compose the popular tongue twister : She sells seashells on the seashore The shells she sells are seashells, I'm sure So if she sells seashells on the seashore Then I'm sure she sells seashore shells.

Shelley Emling

#18. Nudity is for my boyfriend or my doctor.

Ginnifer Goodwin

#19. 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

#20. Idiot! You idiot!

Marissa Meyer

#21. If I ever get some free time I end up thinking about what to make next. I don't pick up a guitar and start playing the songs I already know; I immediately try to write a riff.

Chaz Bundick

#22. It's easier when the patient is ninety-four, in the last stages of dementia, with a severe brain bleed. But for someone like me - a thirty-six-year-old given a diagnosis of terminal cancer - there aren't really words.

Paul Kalanithi

#23. My agent said, 'Jerry, Dancing With the Stars - they want you on there.' I said, 'Ain't no way. I'm not going to do that.' Then he came back to me again, and he kept putting pressure on me. I said, 'All right, I'll give it a try.'

Jerry Rice

#24. 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

#25. The silence was suddenly too much. He hit the CD button on the car's radio. Brian Jones's sitar riff opened for Charlie Watts tribal-like drumbeat thundering from the speakers. Keith Richards' jangly guitar joined in, followed by Mick singing about seeing a red door that he wanted to paint black.

Glenn Rolfe

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

Colin Greenwood

#27. You're the healing janitor dude."
"Groundskeeper."
"Isn't that like a janitor?"
"No, it's like a groundskeeper.

Rachel Hawkins

#28. Moms aren't the best audience for medication humor.

David Levithan

#29. It will always be a fact that the woman is the person one idealizes, also the person who wishes his idealization.

Gaston Bachelard