Top 27 Riffing Quotes
#1. Riffing on language will create wonderful effects you never intended. Which leads me to this writing advice: 'Always take credit for good stuff you didn't intend, because you'll be getting plenty of criticism in your career for bad stuff you didn't mean either.'
Roy Peter Clark
#2. So the actual riffing came out of us just sitting there and doing it the way I think some people think we really did it, which is all spontaneously, and it really was.
Joel Hodgson
#3. I do have a vague recollection of reviving the cover of The Beatles' 'Every Little Thing,' but I don't know if that was just our riffing on it in rehearsal. I don't think we ever did it actually in the show.
Chris Squire
#4. The best I do, if I'm just playing around and riffing in a fantasy world, and then I'll write something down. Hopefully I write it down.
Stephen Malkmus
#5. I think when I feel I'm at my best is when I'm on stage, and it's my version of jazz because it's just riffing or something.
Billy Crystal
#6. I was always getting told off by my choir teacher for, you know, riffing when I shouldn't.
Rita Ora
#7. I enjoyed so much working with the guys from Wilco, and riffing off of them, and having someone come up to me with ideas, because normally in the studio it's me who has to come up with all the ideas.
Billy Bragg
#8. I do lots of crowd work in my set, because I enjoy writing material through riffing and conversation.
Chris Hardwick
#9. The idea of just improvising and riffing can sometimes be at the expense of story.
Jim Rash
#10. When it's a sharing and improvisational meeting, where you're riffing off other people's ideas, that actually can be productive.
Steven Johnson
#11. In a weird way, riffing on genres is kind of a reaction to formula. When you watch so much of the programmers and the films that you just think you've seen before, it's kind of going back to the well in terms of trying to conjure up the spirit of what made you excited about films in the first place.
Edgar Wright
#12. I know you're supposed to hide your influences, but I suppose I see writing as riffing, really, about whatever you have been reading or thinking about that day or that week.
Steve Toltz
#13. We had a work session [in "Moneyball" ]where about 30 scouts came in and out.We're all riffing, and after it, [director] Bennett Miller said, 'Look at these faces: This is what we have to do - we gotta get these guys in the scene.
Brad Pitt
#14. Did you just say shrug instead of actually shrugging?
Chuck Wendig
#15. The observers almost never missed a K that was shown at the beginning or near the end of the Add-1 task but they missed the target almost half the time when mental effort was at its peak, although we had pictures of their wide-open eye staring straight at it.
Daniel Kahneman
#16. Our government makes no sense unless it is founded on a deeply held religious belief - and I don't care what it is.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#17. There are on occasions, as we know, when resources are abundant, but they are expended so incompetently that the advantage is nullified.
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin
#18. One turns back and submits to fate, changes one's attitude, and finds peace in perseverance.
Hellmut Wilhelm
#20. We'll fight back, we'll fight back, we'll fight back, a man near Doctor Stockstill was chanting. Stockstill looked at him in astonishment, wondering who he would fight back against. Things were falling on them; did the man intend to fall back upward into the sky in some sort of revenge?
Philip K. Dick
#21. It was not fair, she felt, to treat people as if they were finished beings. Everyone was always becoming and unbecoming.
Kathleen Winter
#22. Her head appears to be on fire but that is only a trick of the light. It was June 13, eighty-three degrees out, under sunny skies.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#23. There was genuine affection. Mom knew all this. "Thank God Eloise is uglier than a cow living near Chernobyl," Mom liked to say. "Or I might wonder." Dad
Harlan Coben
#24. There is a double-standard between men and women. My father was a major league baseball player, and I grew up thinking I could have the same attitude on the field that he did. When I did that in real life, people thought I was a total bi-atch.
Katie Uhlaender
#25. I feel that it is vital that we all re-open our spiritual gifts and open up to the voice of the Divine.
Doreen Virtue
#26. Myself, first of all, I am a Jew. And that is the most important thing for me.
Ariel Sharon
#27. Friday night, I resolved to have a quiet time. Two pints and a chips carry-home. Alas, the pints got away from me and I hit the top shelf.
Ken Bruen
