"I love most things in my life. I feel it's important to try and live life through adventure, colour and love."

“The Grateful Dead were very kind. It was Santa Claus. It did good things. It allowed other people to benefit. The benefits that we played were enormous, and we played free. So youve got a band that loves to play free, and that was a wonderful thing.”

Source : "Mickey Hart on the Grateful Dead: 'We Weren't a Girl Scouts Troop'". Interview with Benjy Eisen, www.rollingstone.com. April 16, 2012.

“I wondered if there were other restless people asking the question with me: What if Jesus meant the stuff he said?.”

“Don't keep telling your parents they don't understand you. Believe me it's much worse when they do. There's just a chance, you know - they really might.”

“Though everything else may appear shallow and repulsive, even the smallest task in music is so absorbing, and carries us so far away from town, country, earth, and all worldly things, that it is truly a blessed gift of God.”

“Nine! The Navy Diver is not a fighting man, he is a salvage expert. Ten! If it is lost underwater, he finds it. If it's sunk, he brings it up. If it's in the way, he moves it. Eleven! If he''s lucky, he will die young, 200 feet beneath the waves, for that is the closest he''ll ever get to being a hero. Hell, I don''t know why anybody would want to be a Navy Diver. Now you report to this line, Cookie!”

“We attain freedom as we let go of whatever does not reflect our magnificence. A bird cannot fly high or far with a stone tied to its back. But release the impediment, and we are free to soar to unprecedented heights.”

“In a knowledge economy, a good business is a community with a purpose, not a piece of property.”

“I shall look forward to a pleasant time.”