Mickey Hart Quotes

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• Adventures don't begin until you get into the forest. That first step is an act of faith.
• 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…
• Art in the classroom not only spurs creativity, it also inspires learning.
• Life is about rhythm. We vibrate, our hearts are pumping blood, we are a rhythm machine, that’s what we are.
• Music gives the soul this inner self-expression, a voice. It gives the soul a sound, the sound of the Muse.
• 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…
• The voice of the drum is a spirit thing.
• Everywhere you look on the planet people are using drums to alter consciousness.
• When I heard Grateful Dead music, I knew that it was the most powerful force on the planet.
• Dreams sometimes foretell the future.
• 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…
• 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,…
• 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…
• 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,…
• When you are drumming and really feeling the music, the beat, it is like you are transported to a different place, where you feel so…
• There's nothing like music to relieve the soul and uplift it.
• In the beginning, there was noise. Noise begat rhythm, and rhythm begat everything else.
• 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,…

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