Mickey Hart Quotes

In a way, it's my way of dealing with, finding closure with Grateful Dead music, and giving thanks in a way to Jerry and Bob and all the guys in the band for making up this wonderful music.

The Grateful Dead were an influence on our music but they weren't by a long shot the biggest influence.

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

I'm a fan of the Grateful Dead.

The Grateful Dead always had their iconography down pat.

The Grateful Dead, they're my best friends. Their message of hope, peace, love, teamwork, creativity, imagination, celebration, the dance, the vision, the purpose, the passion all of the things I believe in makes me the luckiest Deadhead in the world.

I used to be into the Grateful Dead, so I understand the Phish thing.

There is still nothing under the sun quite like a Grateful Dead concert.

'Europe '72' came out right around the time that I started going to see the Dead, and it had a huge impression on me.

I've been a part of a couple of Grateful Dead and Jerry Garcia nights, and watching the Dead's fan base be so passionate reminds me of what Jerry was so much about, making the community a better place.

The Grateful Dead are faster than light drive.

I love the Dead. As far as Jerry Garcia, Jerry Garcia could walk on water. He could do anything any man could ever do. He's a prince.

I haven't been to many music events where somebody was performing and it actually made me cry.

Pop music has greater power to change people and to affect people because it's a universal language. You don't have to understand music to understand the power of a pop song.

I mean people have compared us to like the Grateful Dead and all these like psychedelic sixties bands.

We weren't by any means like the Grateful Dead or something, who could just roll on and on and on.

It's a rule of 'Deadhead-dom' to claim to hate Donna Godchaux and always say, 'Phil makes the band,' though I think that pronouncement was proved inaccurate after Jerry died.

It's really much more than the plastic of album covers and record sales and dollars and cents. Music is just everybody's mother. Music is the power of you.

'Ray of Light' changed my life. The whole album, but that song specifically, was just so life-changing and incredible for me.

With so many ways to communicate at our disposal, we must not forget the transformative power of a live music experience and genuine human exchange.

Jerry Garcia was a great American master and the Grateful Dead are not just a genuine piece of musical history, but also an important part of American history.

There is not a sentence in the world that could respectfully do justice to the life and music of Jerry Garcia.

I'm a fan and a friend, I met them in 1974 when I first joined the NBA and my life has never been he same since. I became the basketball player I was because of the Grateful Dead.

I started going [Grateful Dead] when I was in high school. I was 15. It was the Summer Of Love.

Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead did as much for mankind as any president.