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

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Source : "There’s a Fire on the Mountain" by Mickey Hart, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 22, 2011.

Mickey Hart

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“The work that I wanted to create wasn't being done then. I was too much concerned about fellow students, professors, institutional style [in Yale].”
“We've got a third, first and a pole; I don't think you could ask for much more than that. Hopefully we can finish it off [tonight].”
“Journalists justify their treachery in various ways according to their temperaments. The more pompous talk about freedom of speech and â€˜the publicâ€™s right to knowâ€™; the least talented talk about Art; the seemliest murmur about earning a living.”

Source : Janet Malcolm (2011). “The Journalist And The Murderer”, p.14, Granta Books
“In a room sit three great men, a king, a priest, and a rich man with his gold. Between them stands a sellsword, a little man of common birth and no great mind. Each of the great ones bids him slay the other two. â€˜Do it,â€™ says the king, â€˜for I am your lawful ruler.â€™ â€˜Do it,â€™ says the priest, â€˜for I command you in the names of the gods.â€™ â€˜Do it,â€™ says the rich man, â€˜and all this gold shall be yours.â€™ So tell meâ€”who lives and who dies?”
“Okay. Then...I can talk. Ask me something." "Okay." He laughs shakily in my ear. "Why is your heart racing Tris?" I cringe and say, "Well, I...I barely know you. I barely know you and I'm crammed up against you in a box, Four, what do you think?"... "Maybe you were cut out for Candor," he says, "because you're a terrible liar.”
“When my coach gives me a program, I damage it.”
“When we are playing [games], we are stretching our emotional expressive ranges, loosening up our biochemical flow of information, getting unstuck, and healing our feelings.”
“I couldn't get to sleep at night without saying the Lord's Prayer because, when I was young, I felt I was touched by the hand of Jesus, and hated myself for challenging it.”

Source : "Bruce Parry: 'My Job Doesn't Allow Me a Private Life'". Interview with Cassandra Jardine, www.telegraph.co.uk. September 19, 2007.

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