I'm Just Dead, I'm Not Gone Quotes

“He claimed the Beatles ruined music and refused to play anything recorded after 1960.”
― Jim Dickinson, I'm Just Dead, I'm Not Gone

“We got stiffed on the gig and drove back to Waco in silence. The sun was coming up over the Brazos when we got back to campus. That was the end of my career with Ramsey Horton and the K-otics, but I had learned his Floyd Cramer licks, without which I would not have known what to play on the Rolling Stones’ session in Muscle Shoals.”
― Jim Dickinson, I'm Just Dead, I'm Not Gone

“Modern Mississippi reverberates with human history. Shotgun shacks and silver metal cotton gins go the way of the lowly mule, sexless beast of burden replaced by soulless progress tractor, strip mining the black dirt in parallel lines of row crop conformity, bending the rhythm of the land to the stubborn will of corporate agriculture, evil grandchild of the plantation.”
― Jim Dickinson, I'm Just Dead, I'm Not Gone

“The show was great: Chuck Berry, Ike and Tina Turner, T. Rex, and finally the Stones.”
― Jim Dickinson, I'm Just Dead, I'm Not Gone

“Play every gig
Every song
Every note
Like it's the last one
One of them will be
Never throw it away
Or take it for granted
Put some bourbon in your coffee
Pour some gravy on the mashed potatoes
A little catsup on that T-Bone, please”
― James Luther Dickinson, I'm Just Dead, I'm Not Gone