Dev Hynes Quotes

I honestly just hope to continue creating music that people can relate to and connect with in a personal way.

I always want to make an album that lets people immerse in it, kind of like you get caught up in a good movie.

I just spend my life studying the manufacture of sound and picture and my education, if you like, has come from what I've chosen to make sounds and pictures on.

I don't think we'll ever use the same sound techniques.

A lot of our tracks have sounded a lot better than I thought they would because of recording, mixing, and because I probably didn't hear it that way. I'm not a songwriter.

My approach to recording and all that is pretty organic. It just has to do with all the songs I wrote; go in and record them.

When I'm sitting in the studio, a mix isn't done till I feel it in my gut.

I like making sounds and putting it together, I'm not just a singer or a producer.

I like being in a recording studio. I like watching a song go from the simplicity of the original music.

I love putting the music together. It's like art.

When creating an album, one of the first things you have to think about is what you want your production style to be.

When you produce an album, you're dealing with it theatrically. It has to have a structure, and the inner response to that is that the ear loves it.

I get very deep into the writing and recording process.

Our job as producers is to make the music sound as good as possible.

I love the magic of the studio.

For example, after developing a sound similar to an elephant trumpeting, I wrote the song Elephant Talk which gave my elephant sound an appropriate place to live.

I usually enter the studio with a mix of songs that I've been listening to that are relevant to the sound I want to achieve.

I've never been one to think it was cheating to sample this or to loop the drum part there - I've always done that. Even using four-track cassette recorders, I was always doing whatever I could to make it as good as I could.

On 'Heartbreaker,' I had to sing those songs. I drank the way I did those songs. I ate the way I did those songs. I communicated the way I did those songs. With 'Gold,' I was trying to prove something to myself. I wanted to invent a modern classic.

I like home recordings and studio recordings just as much as each other - I don't think one is better - but for this record I wanted to see what I could do in a real studio with real producers.

Darrell is really good in the studio. I mean, he has a real working knowledge of how the process works, and what sounds good coming back over tape, and how the stuff works together.

I find it hard to get excited by just a sound. I have to have a song there, then I'll find what used I can make of that sound within the song.

I'm not really a knob-twiddler. I always work with an engineer; I'm not super hands-on when it comes to mixing boards and computers. I'm much more about what I'm hearing and what it needs to be like. I deal with songs and ideas and instruments.

My very first records, I was very interested in how you get the particular quality you want out of it, and I began to learn about the engineering and aspects of production and things very early on. I got hands-on with the process and taught myself how to engineer, as opposed to just being a producer who asked the engineer to make it sound nice.

But really important, perhaps most important is the craft; how you make your record, the creation of these sonic worlds you want your listener to hear.