Bent Saether Quotes

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 beer afterwards’ bit – and once is kind of enough.
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Beer Talking
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.
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Routine Stuff
Sadly, as a songwriter you sooner or later finish developing your musical understanding.
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Later Musical Sooner
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, and he surely wipes the floor with me in others, and we both know it’s like that.
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Hopeful More Texture
Generally there are always a few things that get left off for some reason or other, although the criteria for inclusion vary from project to project.
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Criteria Projects
I always have problems with seeing how our new stuff relates to our old stuff – I’m better at seeing long lines in other people’s music than in my own.
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Lines Long
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 the germ of something good but failed to reach a satisfactory state by the recording stage.
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Cutting Version
I think this insatiable need to get to know new music is a big part of why it has lasted so long.
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Insatiable Long
We sometimes feel like hamsters on a wheel, covering the same musical ground we did 20 or more years ago.
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Covering Musical Years
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 to keep it rolling for as long as you can.
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Blooming Long Rolling

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