Quotes About Riffing

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.

I always play music at home, every day I grab a guitar and start riffing.

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

The Irish crowd and the humour, they really get it. Them riffing with 'The Room' makes the film watchable for me.

When the pastor's up there, they do this thing called looping. They are literally riffing and spitting in the key of the organ. When looping, you're in key, you're in a rhythm, you're in a pocket, and that's where James Brown was pulling from, and so that's where I'm pulling from. The only difference is I'm coming at it under hip-hop.

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.

I do lots of crowd work in my set, because I enjoy writing material through riffing and conversation.

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.