Emulations:

• Neil Young (1995 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductee) used to walk across the stage during his concerts holding a sign reading "DEVO" and asking the audience "Have you got it yet?"
• Neil Young's "Rust Never Sleeps" album was so titled based on DEVO's influence during a jam session
• Nirvana released a cover of DEVO’s "Turn Around" in the year 1992.
• Nirvana covered DEVO’s "Freedom of Choice" during some of their concerts.
• Both Robert Palmer and Soundgarden covered DEVO’s "Girl U Want" in the 1990s.
• Moby released a cover of DEVO’s "Whip It" in 1996.
• Rage Against The Machine covered DEVO’s "Beautiful World" in the year 2000.
• Sugar Ray’s 2004 tour, being filmed by a Spike TV television show, features a cover of DEVO’s "Freedom of Choice", in their words, "to spread the word of DEVOlution to their audience".
• DEVO’s Energy Domes (commonly known as the Flowerpot Hats) are featured conspicuously in 2004’s motion picture Raising Helen.

Admirations:

• DEVO’s "Whip It" was selected by James Henke, chief curator for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, as one of "500 Songs That Shaped Rock."
• "Whatever they were, when this (Freedom of Choice) came out, I wanted to enlist. I’d love to see some of these new-school rock bands step up to this level of concept.
  - Beck
• "I’d always admired DEVO’s robot-gone-haywire sound, and their amazing videos."
  - David Byrne
• "Out of all the bands that made it out of the underground into the mainstream, DEVO is the most subversive and controversial of all."
  - Kurt Cobain
• "I learned to drum to ‘Freedom of Choice’."
  - Josh Freese, drummer for The Vandals, et al
• Guided By Voices singer Robert Pollard said DEVO’s debut album was one of his all-time favorite albums.
• "I love them. DEVO are like Dadaists to me. Everything that they express is a complete reaction against everything that we stood for. But they do it so well, theatrically speaking. And with a great sense of humor."
  - Joni Mitchell
• "I think DEVO were the greatest punk rock band that ever lived."
  - Thurston Moore, Sonic Youth
• "The genius of that band is just staggering! There are only two kinds of people in this world: those who get DEVO and those who don’t."
  - Henry Rollins
• "We went to play ‘Hey Hey (My My)’ and we weren’t hittin’ it that good. Neil (Young) showed us a video of him playin’ it with DEVO. I didn’t think we could ever play it that good, but that inspired us to play harder. From then on, we played the sh*t out of that song."
  - Frank "Poncho" Sampedro, Crazy Horse guitarist

Celebrations:

• DEVO’s movie "The Truth About De-Evolution" won the Best Short Film award at the Ann Arbor Film Festival,
• "DEVO meets Sarah Jessica Parker on Square Pegs", which aired in 1982, is one of VH1's, "100 Moments That Rocked TV."
• DEVO received a Grammy nomination in February 1985 for their video "We’re All DEVO."
• DEVO's video for "Whip It" was inducted in the Music Video Production Association's Hall of Fame in 1998.
• DEVO won the Los Angeles Weekly Music Awards’ "Pop/Rock Lifetime Achievement Award" in 2004.

Manifestations:

• DEVO conceived of and made music videos before MTV even existed. As a result, their library of available videos were broadcast regularly and often in the early days of MTV. These helped shape people’s ideas of what music videos should be.
• DEVO was the musical guest on Saturday Night Live on October 14, 1978.
• DEVO was on American Bandstand in 1981.
• DEVO’s "Beautiful World" is used as the theme song in a Target commercial in the year 2001.
• DEVO’s "Freedom of Choice" is used as the theme song in a Miller Light TV commercial in the year 2003.
• DEVO’s "Going Under" was used in the TV show "Miami Vice" in the year 1984.
• DEVO's "Gut Feeling" was used in the movie "The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou" in 2004.
• DEVO’s cover of (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction was used in the movie "Casino" in 1995.
• DEVO’s "Jerkin Back and Forth" was used in the trailer for the movie "Boogie Nights" in the year 1997.
• DEVO’s "Uncontrollable Urge" is used in Nissan’s TV commercial in the year 2002 and in Mitsubishi’s TV commercial for the Galant in the year 2004.
• DEVO’s "Whip It" is used:
  - In the movie "The Last American Virgin" in 1982
  - In the movie "Casino" in 1995
  - In a Sunbeam commercial in 1996
  - In a Swiffer commercial in the year 2003
  - By reference in Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me in 1999
  - By reference in the movie The Weatherman in 2005