I think this insatiable need to get to know new music is a big part of why it has lasted so long. — Bent Saether Copy Share Image
We sometimes feel like hamsters on a wheel, covering the same musical ground we did 20 or more years ago. — Bent Saether Copy Share Image
We've known each other [in Motorpsycho ] since 1985 or '86, are really different as personalities, and yet have actually never disagreed to any… — Bent Saether Copy Share Image
Where Snah [Hans Magnus Ryan] is a melody and texture man, I am more of a riff, rhythm and concept guy. I am much… — Bent Saether Copy Share Image
I really liked Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls and a couple of others, but with these kinds of movies the best part is… — Bent Saether Copy Share Image
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… — Bent Saether Copy Share Image
Sadly, as a songwriter you sooner or later finish developing your musical understanding. — Bent Saether Copy Share Image
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… — Bent Saether Copy Share Image
We went from being thought of and talked about as "a band that plays a so-and-so style of music" (a grunge band, a stoner… — Bent Saether Copy Share Image
I always have problems with seeing how our new stuff relates to our old stuff - I'm better at seeing long lines in other… — Bent Saether Copy Share Image
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… — Bent Saether Copy Share Image
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 bored… — Bent Saether Copy Share Image
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… — Bent Saether Copy Share Image
![“We've known each other [in Motorpsycho ] since 1985 or '86, are really different as personalities, and yet have actually never disagreed to any degree. We are really complimentary as musicians and songwriters too, and come from two total opposites in our approaches.” quote by Bent Saether](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/132/bent-saether-34295_approach_we-ve-known-each-other-in-motorpsycho-si_398037.jpg)
![“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.” quote by Bent Saether](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ed4/bent-saether-34295_certain_where-snah-hans-magnus-ryan-is-a-melody_887200.jpg)
