I wrote my first song when I was maybe like four years old. I was always wandering around the house making things up. Back then, I learned a lot about singing from listening to Mariah Carey. I would sing to her [albums] and try and get all her riffs and s...
Bethany Lenz
When we started writing, we went back to the basics of just kind of jamming out riffs, ... That brought us back to some of our influences. It made the songs seem like some of them could use guitar solos. We just thought we would expand on that. We`re tryi...
Dan Donegan
When I was younger, I would have told you it was my genius, but now I don`t believe that for a second. Music just comes out of you, it flows through — it`s weird. If you think about it intellectually, how does someone come up with two hundred riffs...
Tracii Guns
We`re bringing AC/DC-like riffs, not a lot of whining like some rockers do. We don`t like to bring rock down with sad stories, we just want to bring it -- that`s what rock is about.
Abby Gennet
The way that we imitate each others` riffs is something that other bands don`t do as much. If we`re jamming with a jazz band, or I am jamming with a jazz band, I have to catch myself, the tendency is always to do that.
Mike Gordon
Probably. When we got together and started throwing around the ideas, I just started bringing out some old riffs I used to play. `Guarded` and `Decadence` are pretty much straight-up, aggressive tracks on the album. Those were the first two ideas I had co...
Dan Donegan
It`s all acoustic. The electric sounding riffs I played on an acoustic, ... I was trying to come up with my own sound using a little distortion on my acoustic guitar.
Kevin Fox
I`ll come in with a string of riffs and direct the musical ideas. But you still need a band and their input to make the ideas come alive. You can`t underestimate band chemistry.
Billy Corgan
I wrote all these heavy, tuned-down guitar riffs and I asked him if he wanted to play the guitar solo on it, and he was pumped to do it, ... That was the first time I appeared on a record with Dime, and now this. I just wish this wasn`t the way it had to ...
Chad Kroeger
For me, August Wilson is the person who made it appear that I had a place in the American theater. For the first time, I felt I actually saw characters that I knew, that spoke my language and had my stories and could express them in the riffs of blues and...
Barbara Gann
Even though there`s these songs and whoever the hell put it in the internet, if there`s any good riffs in them, we raped the songs and put in the new ones.
Kerry King