David Byrne Quotes

It baffles me that everything is so homogenized, because the world isn't, and yet we continue to support things that are so incredibly milquetoast.

So many people want to have this typical look and this typical everything and it's all the same everywhere.

The idea of seeing everybody clad the same is not really my cup of tea.

TV has made everyone so vanilla it's nearly impossible to tell one anchor apart from another.

Our culture has made us all the same. No one is truly white or black or rich, anymore. We all want the same. Individually, we are nothing.

Efficiency obliterates identity

If everything is the same, nothing is special.

One of the shocking things when I go back to Canada is they cut off the tall trees - it's sort of like everyone's the same. Everyone's going to be the same, we're all okay. Just the, sort of, cultural, 'We're all okay.'

The problem, for me, with the writing programs is that they produce a terrible uniformity of product.

What's sometimes really overwhelming in Sweden is the uniformity. People kind of disappear by all looking the same and wearing the same clothes. There are a lot of great individuals, but it can become a very blank and bleak picture.

You can drain the life and nuances and complexity out of things by homogenizing them to make everything harmoniously dull, flat, conflict-free, strife-free.

There are two ways to make a person feel homeless—one is to destroy his home and the other is to make his home look and feel like everybody else’s home.

I'm from Long Island, which is a very cookie-cutter place.

It's perfect to be the same as everyone else.

Everything's getting homogenized. It seems to me like music and behavior and everything else is getting homogenized.

L.A. is... I always feel sort of abducted when I'm there, like I've stepped onto another planet where everyone looks the same.

I think if everyone looked the same, it would be a bit boring.

I look like everyone.

I don't like to be different; I would like to be the same.

Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.

I didn't care too much for ballet, because you had to be more disciplined, and you sort of looked like everyone else. It required a certain kind of conformity that I didn't feel like I wanted to do.

I know there are lots of positives in the evolution of technology, but I also think it will be responsible for the end of a unique character, of a specific kind of geographical culture. The world is getting so small, and mass production is getting so big. Everything is in danger of becoming the same.

I do everything that everybody else does.

Each Chinese person is a kind of replica of the next one and that is a very frightening thing.

My personal opinion about the world is that it's homogenized.