Life is about rhythm. We vibrate, our hearts are pumping blood, we are a rhythm machine, that's what we are.

A few months out of high school he "discovered the work of Nigerian drummer Babatunde Olatunji". In 2010 Hart debuted "Rhythms of the Universe" a composition based on a variety of astrophysical data. Personal life
Mickey Hart was born in Brooklyn and grew up on Long Island attending Lawrence High School before dropping out as a senior and leaving for Europe.

He was a member of the Grateful Dead from September 1967 to February 1971 and from October 1974 to August 1995. Mickey Hart (born Michael Steven Hartman; September 11 1943) is an American percussionist and musicologist. He is best known as one of the two drummers of the rock band the Grateful Dead.