Creativity Quote by Santiago Durango

"There's fifty bands doing my riffs for ever and ever" lands with the weary swagger of someone watching their fingerprints show up on other people’s mirrors. Santiago Durango isn’t bragging about influence so much as measuring the weird afterlife of a musical idea: once a riff leaves your amp, it becomes public property in everything but the legal sense. The number "fifty" isn’t a statistic; it’s a vibe. It signals saturation, that moment when a signature sound stops feeling like a calling card and starts feeling like a template.

The line also catches the punk/indie paradox Durango came out of: scenes run on borrowing, retooling, and doing it louder, faster, cheaper. Influence is the currency, but it’s also the theft you’re supposed to applaud. By saying "my riffs" and then stretching time into "for ever and ever", he frames that borrowing as both compliment and curse - immortality with no control, legacy without authorship.

There’s an implied bitterness, but it’s not pure resentment. It’s closer to a musician’s deadpan reality check: originality gets mythologized, yet the ecosystem rewards replication. If your ideas spread, you’ve won; if they spread too much, you vanish into the genre’s wallpaper. Durango’s tone suggests he’s clocked that trade-off and is refusing to romanticize it. The riff survives. The name attached to it, maybe not.