Bruce Springsteen Quotes About Cars

Quotes about: Cars

• The first time I heard Bob Dylan, I was in the car with my mother listening to WMCA, and on came that snare shot that sounded like somebody'd kicked open the door to your mind.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Mother, Song, Mean

  "Bob Dylan's original manuscript for Like a Rolling Stone's lyrics goes on sale". www.theguardian.com. May 1, 2014.

• I was lucky I survived the motorcycle accident because I - bike went under the car. I flew out about 20 or 25 feet. I didn't have a helmet on. I hit my head on the pavement and knocked myself out, gave myself a brain concussion, screwed up my left leg. And I was - I was lucky then that I didn't get killed because I didn't have any protective clothing on whatsoever. And I took a pretty good beating. But, yeah, such was the nature of the day when the barber was called and Samson's locks were trimmed.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Feet, Car, Brain

  Source: www.npr.org

• I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars, the houses - that's not the American dream. That's the booby prize, in the end. Those are the booby prizes. And if you fall for them - if, when you achieve them, you believe that this is the end in and of itself - then you've been suckered in. Because those are the consolation prizes, if you're not careful, for selling yourself out, or letting the best of yourself slip away.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Dream, Believe, Fall

• I found the key to the universe in the engine of an old parked car.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Philosophy, Keys, Car

  Song: Growin' Up, Album: Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J., 1973

• Somewhere along the way, the idea, which I think was initially to get some fair transaction between people, went out the window. And what came in was, the most you can get and the least you can give. That's why cars are the way they are nowadays. It's just an erosion of all the things that were true and right about the original idea.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Thinking, Erosion, Ideas

• You ride in a limousine the first time, it's a big thrill but after that it's just a stupid car.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Stupid, Car, Thrill

  "Bruce Springsteen: 'Talking'". Book edited by John W. Duffy, 2004.

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