Hynes Quotes

#1. I'm pretty much fully digital. I've basically spent a few painstaking days putting sounds into my laptop, just banking them, because I love playing, and I love visually seeing it on my screen and being able to change the sounds more, with different plug-ins. I've created my own synth sounds.

Dev Hynes

#2. As far as Irish writers being great, I think the fact that there have been two languages in Ireland for a very long time; there has obviously been a shared energy between those two languages.

Garry Hynes

#3. 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 like, and it's just this weird hunger to want more. I always feel like there's so much that exists.

Dev Hynes

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

Dev Hynes

#5. You can serve high tea around the dining room table, but afternoon tea is more of a living room occasion, with everything brought in on a tray or a cart.

Angela Hynes

#6. I see no kind of reason to not just try everything. I mean, I feel like we all have such varied tastes, and to not just try our tastes is a crime.

Dev Hynes

#7. I know a lot of people feel like they get eaten alive by New York, but I feel it more as a father figure or something - this huge presence watching over me. I definitely feel better and work freer here.

Dev Hynes

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

Dev Hynes

#9. I approach every single thing I do as a fan. It's the only way I can do things. That way, I never let myself down.

Dev Hynes

#10. Sometimes that's the only way I exist, talking to people through pop culture.

Dev Hynes

#11. Plays by people like Martin McDonagh and Brian Friel attract huge audiences, not because they're Irish, but because they're brilliant plays.

Garry Hynes

#12. An advertising man understands even more viscerally than an academic that the world is made of discourse, Pescecane argued; he understands in his bones that true power resides in the infinite manipulability of signs.

James Hynes

#13. I'm such a strong believer in making yourself happy. Almost in a selfish way. There are a lot of trends, and obviously you can get swept up into them. But I feel like if you just write songs you love, it can have trap beats in it or whatever's going on in the moment, but you don't stop loving songs.

Dev Hynes

#14. Radio voices have a solid, even texture.

Dev Hynes

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

Dev Hynes

#16. A lot of my friends were gay, so I was spat on on the bus daily, and I ended up in hospital a couple of times from being beaten up so badly.

Dev Hynes

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

Dev Hynes

#18. I avoid falling into a trap of doing work solely to impress people. I always ask myself, "What don't I ever see?"

Dev Hynes

#19. I think I'm attracted to writers who tell us something about ourselves.

Garry Hynes

#20. I wouldn't call myself religious. I'm spiritual. Everybody's a bit more so as you get older. I'm a cultural Catholic; it's inescapable, but I think I have to believe.

Garry Hynes

#21. When I was recording music, I'd record all the parts myself, and I wouldn't let other people in; that's essentially what Blood Orange is the result of; me trying to find the most comfortable I can be with everything.

Dev Hynes

#22. A Michigander can be every bit as prickly as a New Yorker, just not out loud. The Midwesterner's credo: keep it to yourself.

James Hynes

#23. I was born in Ballaghadreen, but I grew up in Galway, and when I went to the University College of Galway, I became involved in the drama society there and started directing plays.

Garry Hynes

#24. I think women are in much the same place in the Irish theater as they are everywhere else. Certainly, we have wonderful Irish writers, and we have quite a number of Irish women directors. But there could be more, and there should be more.

Garry Hynes

#25. I remember thinking, 'I can't act.' Pretending to be someone else is a terrifying thought. The thing was that, along with other people, I could create a whole world. I felt absolutely right directing.

Garry Hynes

#26. '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 probably a word I just Googled one day, and the song kind of played into the feel of that.

Dev Hynes

#27. 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 where all the weird fairies, who are played by kids in the production, sing. It's a crazy opening melody and chord sequence - really amazing.

Dev Hynes

#28. 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

#29. It isn't often that a writer of superlative skills knows enough about flying to write well about it.

Samuel Hynes

#30. Plotting is an organic, and wildly inefficient process of trial and error.

James Hynes

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

Dev Hynes

#32. Personally, I always just want people to enjoy themselves and experience something that they wouldn't normally experience.

Dev Hynes

#33. The odd thing about 'Cripple of Inishmaan' is it's never actually been performed on the island.

Garry Hynes

#34. I try to take it as it comes. I'm constantly trying to please myself. That's why I've basically realised now, that nothing else in the world matters at all, just please yourself and the people you love and that's it.

Dev Hynes

#35. There wasn't anyone in my family who was involved in the theatre. I saw a few amateur plays when I was growing up, but I can't think of anything that happened or anybody in particular who inspired me; it all came from within.

Garry Hynes

#36. Indeed, it was not unusual for the dais to be littered with panties and boxer shorts after one of Branwell's talks at the MLA." (loc 4363)

James Hynes

#37. I had spent time in New York, where I loved the idea that theater could be done up in tiny little rooms rather than for lots of money on a big stage, and be tied to ordinary life.

Garry Hynes

#38. I don't really care about audio quality. If people saw some of the ways that I record stuff, they'd see I don't care in that respect. I obviously care about things sounding good, but I think quality exists through other things like emotionally connecting with a lyric or a feeling, or whatever.

Dev Hynes

#39. I was the first woman to win a Tony for directing, but the second woman came along five minutes later.

Garry Hynes