Song Quotes by Dev Hynes

I don't want to say I hate remixes, because I don't, but I hate what instantly comes to mind now when people say 'remixes.'

— Dev Hynes

I know a lot of people feel like they get eaten alive by New York, but I feel it more as a father figure…

— Dev Hynes

If I like something, I then have to study every single aspect of it to find out if there's more things that I would…

— Dev Hynes

A lot of my friends were gay, so I was spat on on the bus daily, and I ended up in hospital a couple…

— Dev Hynes

I've been kind of listening to the composer Britten and his rendition of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' The opening track is a choral section…

— Dev Hynes

I like to blur the line between remix and cover version and new song.

— Dev Hynes

The issue I had with the Lightspeed albums was that usually the main purpose with them was to fulfil really dorky musical goals, like,…

— Dev Hynes

I'm pretty strict with videos, at least the imagery stuff.

— Dev Hynes

'Chamalkay' is an old Guyanese slang word. It means a 'young mischievous girl.' It's not derogatory, but it isn't over complimentary, either. It was…

— Dev Hynes

Yeah, I associate every sound with a color and vice versa.

— Dev Hynes

I'm always weary of connotations. I don't want people to listen to the music I make presently because they liked my previous work, or…

— Dev Hynes

I see no kind of reason to not just try everything. I mean, I feel like we all have such varied tastes, and to…

— Dev Hynes

Everything I do, I build a kind of confidence net - 'I'm able to execute this; it's fine.'

— Dev Hynes

Cello is my first instrument, then piano, drums, bass, violin, recorder, saxophone, but I'd never play them live!

— Dev Hynes

It's funny because I think, as a general rule, that people seem to think that if you do lots of different things over the…

— Dev Hynes