Quotes About Conversation

Most of us tend to suffer from 'agenda anxiety', the feeling that what we want to say to others is more important than what we think they might want to say to us.

Strong minds talk about ideas; weak minds talk about people.

Dating is pressure and tension. What is a date, really, but a job interview that lasts all night?

A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

I like people who love books and movies and art and want to talk about it all the time, because that's basically what I want to talk about. Intellectuals that are funny.

Chamber music - a conversation between friends.

If songs were lines in a conversation, the situation would be fine . . .

For me, music is always the language which permits one to converse with the Beyond.

This is what I want in heaven... words to become notes and conversations to be symphonies.

It's rare that I ever meet a musician who doesn't agree that music is a language. But it's very rare to meet a musician that really treats it like one.

No one comes up to me asking for a crack dealer's number. People come up to me to talk about lyrics, about music, about the band.

Music is like having a conversation. All musicians inspire each other, and they're all geared to play something that matters.

I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says.

Poetry is halfway between prose and music: it is sometimes like an intimate conversation, in words and phrases which need not be fully uttered, and sometimes like dancing and wordless music.

Everyone wants to talk about it, and right now music, flat-panel televisions, a whole host of new handheld devices are fun to talk about and very exciting to look at.

We should talk over the lessons of the day, or lose them in Music, Chess, or the merriments of our family companions.

You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends.

You're in the car, you're talking to somebody, the radio's on, music's playing, you're not really listening to it; you're aware of it; that's passive.

When you have characters talking about music in any way, especially about music someone doesn't know, some people presume it's about showing social capital and sneering at those who don't have it.

From Mozart I learnt to say important things in a conversational way.

All we have to do to create the future is to change the nature of our conversations, to go from blame to ownership, and from bargaining to commitment, and from problem solving to possibility.

Gossip is nature's telephone.

There are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature the theme!

It is a lovely oddity of human nature that a person is more inclined to interrupt two people in conversation than one person alone with a book.