Devo Quotes

#1. Punk-rock records came out and you bought whatever you could find. But Devo didn't happen for another three years. Sex Pistols didn't tour the States until '78. At that time, for me, it was really about CBGB, Patti Smith, Talking Heads, the Ramones, and Television.

Michael Stipe

#2. I would choose no other band, given the opportunity, except for one that's extinct, like Devo. Sorry to my bandmates, but I'd rather be in Devo.

Nate Mendel

#3. I have been an XL fan of Devo since I was in high school in the 1970s. Their records only sound better with time.

Henry Rollins

#4. I've always been very image prone, along the lines of bands like Black Sabbath and even Devo.

Peter Steele

#5. Devo farmi le ossa is how they say it in Italian. I need to make my bones.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#6. DEVO was like the punk band that non Punk America saw as Punk and so when people who were really into Punk rock would be walking around on the streets the jocks who learned about Punk through Devo would roll down their windows and yell at the Punks: 'HEY, DEVO!!'

Thurston Moore

#7. I can't think of any musician or producer who has influenced me more than Brian Eno. From when he was in Roxy Music, producing Devo, the Talking Heads and My Life in the Bush of Ghosts.

Moby

#8. I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.

Patrick Carney

#9. Devo and The Cramps didn't get big until they went to New York City. Chrissie Hynde didn't get big until she moved to London. When I was growing up, there wasn't even a place to play - just one little bar. If we wanted to have a gig, then we had to drive 45 minutes up to Cleveland.

Dan Auerbach

#10. She wears high tech Devo suit, she changed her name to Xerox, she hides quaaludes in her boots.

Alice Cooper

#11. I had a portable 8-track player under all my ramps, cranking one of my four 8-tracks - Cars/'Candy-O,' Ramones/'Road To Ruin,' Cheap Trick/'Heaven Tonight' and the first Devo record. I don't remember skating without music.

Jeff Ament

#12. He doesn't make your heart feel like this, Auburn. He doesn't make it so crazy that it tries to beat through the walls of your chest.

Colleen Hoover

#13. My quotes are being used in other authors creations. To be recognized while I'm alive has surpassed my expectations

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#14. Simple models and a lot of data trump more elaborate models based on less data.

Peter Norvig

#15. Starting with that son of mine - that weakling Chiron.

Rick Riordan

#16. The pursuit of individual happiness within those limits prescribed by social conditions, is the first requisite to the attainment of the greatest general happiness.

Herbert Spencer

#17. workin' in a coalmine

Devo

#18. I certainly don't like a label that suggests I believe that the military is the solution to most of the world's problems.

Paul Wolfowitz

#19. But the lie had already buried itself inside of Scarlett, as lies that children are told often do.

Stephanie Garber

#20. Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world and give out fictitious ones in their stead for general consumption.

Mark Twain