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Quotes by Mickey Hart

A good groove releases adrenaline in your body. You feel uplifted, you feel centered, you feel calm, you feel powerful. You feel that energy. That's what good drumming is all about.
– Mickey Hart
I never wanted a hit single, ever. I thought as soon as we stopped becoming hungry, we wouldn't play hungry. And that's what happened.
– Mickey Hart
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.
– Mickey Hart
Life is about rhythm. We vibrate, our hearts are pumping blood, we are a rhythm machine, that's what we are.
– Mickey Hart
Music is feeling. Once you start thinking about it then you overdevelop it. It should come from the heart, the soul, and the subconscious. Music is all about the moment, and if you think about it then you're already in the next moment.
– Mickey Hart
The adventure of composition is a mystery. The muse has her ways, she hides from you, comes for you in the middle of the night, at midday, at dawn. You must believe wholeheartedly in this divine power. Its an elusive gift that can appear at any time, anywhere. Artists are in awe of it.
– Mickey Hart
There's nothing like music to relieve the soul and uplift it.
– Mickey Hart
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.
– Mickey Hart
When the Grateful Dead needed a quality sound system to deliver our sonic payload, I learned electronics and speaker design.
– Mickey Hart
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.
– Mickey Hart
Dreams sometimes foretell the future.
– Mickey Hart
Art in the classroom not only spurs creativity, it also inspires learning.
– Mickey Hart