“Communication works for those who work at it.”

“Music is about communication... it isn't just something that maybe physically sounds good or orally sounds interesting it's something far, far deeper than that.”

“Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of evry part of your life.”

“I find that communication as an actor and person is an important part of who I am. And I'm really drawn into the psychology of those dynamics.”

“The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.”

“Bad human communication leaves us less room to grow.”

“Music and politics are in essence about communication. Without over-stretching the analogy I do feel a sense of rhythm is important in getting your message across.”

“I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in.”

“You know, Quincy Jones was a great mentor, but he was a man in a man's world. Fortunately he's a very sensitive man and a beautiful human being, and even though he was 14 or 15 years older than me, he's a capable human being and has great communication skills.”

“It's about communication. It's about honesty. It's about treating people in the organization as deserving to know the facts. You don't try to give them half the story. You don't try to hide the story. You treat them as - as true equals, and you communicate and you communicate and communicate.”

“He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.”

“It is difficult to imagine how any behavior in the presence of another person can avoid being a communication of one's own view of the nature of one's relationship with that person and how it can fail to influence that person.”

“My belief is that communication is the best way to create strong relationships.”

“In a way song writing can almost be detrimental, because suddenly you find an outlet that is a kind of cheating. You don't need to have direct communication. You can say, 'I can't describe it to you, but I will record it and send it to you.'”

“Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.”

“There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.”

“In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.”

“Being a good Hans Haacke student, part of his influence on me is that there's no difference between a gallery show and a film - or even an ad and a T-shirt-in terms of cultural legitimacy. They're just different contexts in which to have some sort of communication.”

“I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.”

“We know that communication must be hampered, and its form largely determined, by the unconscious but inevitable influence of a transmitting mechanism, whether that be of a merely mechanical or of a physiological character.”

“Music is the greatest communication in the world. Even if people don't understand the language that you're singing in, they still know good music when they hear it.”