Raphael Bob-Waksberg

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.

American Comedian

Johnny Christ

You can have the best riff in the world, but if the drums behind it just ain't vibing it, it's not gonna be the greatest riff, right? So you've gotta have someone there that can really bring that to life.

American Musician

Steve Toltz

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.

Australian Novelist

Ted Lieu

We have to remember the bigger picture: the U.S.-Israel alliance is too important to be hijacked by political interests or undermined by perceived riffs.

American Politician

Zaytoven

I use a lot of piano riffs in my production, and someone who I was working with said that I played so good that it sound like Beethoven.

Jeff Hanneman

I like playing guitar I don't like talking about it. I like writing riffs, I don't like explaining them.

Ethel Waters

No one in the world can beat Ella Fitzgerald as a riff singer.

Baron Vaughn

As long as the world keeps spinning, I'll keep riffing.

Santiago Durango

There's fifty bands doing my riffs for ever and ever.

Joe Bonamassa

I've never been known as a riff kind of artist.

The term 'riff' is mostly used in jazz and rock music, but can also be found in other genres.

Music Styles

Riffs are designed to be memorable and are often a song's most recognizable feature.

Catchy Repetition

Unlike a solo, a riff is typically not the focus but rather a repeated background pattern.

Not a Solo

When riffing as a verb, musicians often improvise, creating a unique twist on a tune.

Improvisation

Musicians can 'riff off' each other, meaning they build on others' ideas in a performance.

Collaborative

When used colloquially, 'riffing' means to talk informally and without a strict plan.

Casual Discussion

Riffing can cover a wide range of topics quickly and in an unplanned manner.

Spontaneous Topics

In casual use, riffing often indicates a light-hearted, humorous conversation style.

Light-hearted Tone

 miming the guitar riffs. Usually they sound awful. Awful indeed. Some people turn into rockers like this. Or some people dance in clubs. People who would have enjoyed telling stories end up trolling on the Internet all night long. That's how a writing talent reveals itself on the dark side.

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 and it also fits very well robots and artificial intelligence. But I thought, if I use the same ideas I used in the theater play and in the teamwork studies, maybe I can make the robots jam together like a band. Everybody's riffing off each other, nobody is stopping for a moment.

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 from the history of fashion and incorporate it into their own design. They're also notorious for riffing off of the zeitgeist. And here, I suspect, they were influenced by the costumes in Avatar. Maybe just a little. Can't copyright a costume either. Now, fashion designers have

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 and destiny riffs on romance, while the tales of working-class narrators are generally comedies filled with scatological language, sexual deviance, and slapstick. This variation includes something for everyone, and that’s one reason why readers continue to delight in the work

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 he had to set up these rumbling, repetitive riffs in the bass. And he stood up twisting, pounding down on the keys, desperately trying to create enough volume to reach the people in the back row. It's an electrifying performance. It somehow has this peaceful quality,

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 in the future you know how you come to almost anticipate where a song is going like if you hear a jazz song playing you think yeah I kind of feel the general groove no matter how many riffs and variations maybe it can't exactly predict the next note but you can kind

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 designers can sample from all their peers designs they can take any element from any garment from the history of fashion and incorporate it into their own design they're also notorious for you know riffing off of the zeitgeist and here I suspect they were influenced

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 in a situation where I'm the only one at home the dog is making a mess in the house don't pee I'm asking for help I'm not getting help and there's a riff going on I mean every time a program comes on of yours I I tell her say honey come here sit down

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 Ultimately, this is the poet's balancing act, learning when to repeat and when to riff, when to satisfy expectations, and when to thwart them, and in that balance, it may be enough to remember we all live in a world of wild variation

The pleasure of poetic...

 don't care who takes it to the world ice ice baby doesn't that are than thin under I mean come on it's a riff on like

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