We've gotten better at shooting down routine material or stuff we feel like we've done better in the past. Getting different people in the band for periods also keeps it from going stale.
It feels like we've grown enough as musicians over the last few years to go new places, and our conceptual and compositional abilities have developed… - Bent Saether
It feels like we've grown enough as musicians over the last few years to go new places, and our conceptual and compositional abilities have developed…
- Bent Saether
I think this insatiable need to get to know new music is a big part of why it has lasted so long. - Bent Saether
I think this insatiable need to get to know new music is a big part of why it has lasted so long.
Where Snah [Hans Magnus Ryan] is a melody and texture man, I am more of a riff, rhythm and concept guy. I am much better than him in certain fields, … - Bent Saether
Where Snah [Hans Magnus Ryan] is a melody and texture man, I am more of a riff, rhythm and concept guy. I am much better than him in certain fields, …
Sadly, as a songwriter you sooner or later finish developing your musical understanding. - Bent Saether
Sadly, as a songwriter you sooner or later finish developing your musical understanding.
You find your preferred resolutions and harmonic intervals and what-have-yous, and then you either keep writing the same thing until everybody is as … - Bent Saether
You find your preferred resolutions and harmonic intervals and what-have-yous, and then you either keep writing the same thing until everybody is as …
We sometimes feel like hamsters on a wheel, covering the same musical ground we did 20 or more years ago. - Bent Saether
We sometimes feel like hamsters on a wheel, covering the same musical ground we did 20 or more years ago.
A lot of ideas get re-used and made part of new songs if the first version didn't cut the mustard, and the stuff that gets left off usually contained… - Bent Saether
A lot of ideas get re-used and made part of new songs if the first version didn't cut the mustard, and the stuff that gets left off usually contained…
I really liked Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls and a couple of others, but with these kinds of movies the best part is the 'talking about it over a be… - Bent Saether
I really liked Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls and a couple of others, but with these kinds of movies the best part is the 'talking about it over a be…
When you've been at it for as long as we have, you go through fallow periods and blooming ones, and you know when you're on a roll and you learn how … - Bent Saether
When you've been at it for as long as we have, you go through fallow periods and blooming ones, and you know when you're on a roll and you learn how …
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