Mickey Hart's Quotes

There's nothing like music to relieve the soul and uplift it.

When I heard Grateful Dead music, I knew that it was the most powerful force on the planet.

Art in the classroom not only spurs creativity, it also inspires learning.

Dreams sometimes foretell the future.

Life is about rhythm. We vibrate, our hearts are pumping blood, we are a rhythm machine, that's what we are.

People will always try to find themselves and their place in the world.

When the Grateful Dead needed a quality sound system to deliver our sonic payload, I learned electronics and speaker design.

Egyptian drumming happens to be a favorite of mine. It's a really simple instrument, but it's really difficult to play. You can take it anywhere with you - you can play it in your room, in an airport. It's very quiet, so you explore the quiet side.

I hated science in high school. Technology? Engineering? Math? Why would I ever need this? Little did I realize that music was also about science, technology, engineering and mathematics, all rolled into one.

I thought the '60s was the most exciting time and the most vital music, and we were really together as one mind then. Then afterwards, the songs and the bad drugs, that took its toll.

The point is that the arts are important enough to have influenced the greatest minds and talents we know. Albert Einstein said that if he were not a physicist, he would probably be a musician.

What is the best music is impossible to define. Just because it's played by a virtuoso player, doesn't mean it's great music. It might not reflect the soul of a people, which is really my criteria for great music.