Mickey Hart Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

“Dreams sometimes foretell the future.”

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

“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.”

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

“Yeah, I miss the Grateful Dead. I miss that groove. I miss the brotherhood. Absolutely. There's no doubt about it.”

“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.”