Anthem Quotes

Anytime I sing the anthem, it is an honor and my heart beats out of my chest.

If you forget the words to your own song, you can always claim artistic license. Forget the words to the national anthem and you're screwed.

At the beginning of the World Series of 1947, I experienced a completely new emotion when the National Anthem was played. This time, I thought, it is being played for me, as much as for anyone else.

Every album I make big records. I'm going to always make an anthem. That's what I do.

There is no global anthem, no global currency, no certificate of global citizenship. We pledge allegiance to one flag, and that flag is the American flag.

The national anthem of hell is, "I Did It My Way."

The only thing I can cheer for in Philadelphia is the national anthem.

You will be pleased to know I stand obediently for the national anthem, though of course I would defend your right to remain seated should you so decide.

I like traditions, and the national anthem is important.

The white cracker who wrote the National Anthem knew what he was doing. He set the word "free" to a note so high nobody could reach it. That was deliberate.

I've never been more nervous in my life than singing the national anthem at the Super Bowl.

I'm weird - I don't really listen to American music while I'm writing. I do occasionally get an anthem song, but generally speaking, when I write, I only listen to Japanese and Hawaiian music.

The traditions of a nation are very important and the anthem written by Francis Scott Key in the early days of our nation should always be revered.

Money is the anthem, of succes, so put on your mascara and your party dress

The closest thing to Roseanne Barr's singing the national anthem was my cat being neutered.

There is nothing to take a man’s freedom away from him, save other men.

When we sing praises to our Lord, we join in the chorus that creation has been singing from the beginning of time. And it is the same anthem that we as believers will be singing for all eternity.

This god, this one word: I.

But what is freedom? Freedom from what? There is nothing to take a man's freedom away from him, save other men. To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. That and nothing else.

Colin Kaepernick is the latest professional athlete to spark a national debate about the meaning behind the American flag and the national anthem.

I listen to a lot of twerk anthems.

Heartbreak is the national anthem. We sing it proudly.

The British press isn't as vicious as it used to be, and these days it's sort of cool to care again. Everyone loves an everyman anthem.

Who can fail to mist at Fergie's anthem, 'My humps, my humps, my lovely lady lumps.' Hmmm. 'My lunch, my lunch, I swear it's coming up.

We turned an anthem into an assignment, a poem into a job description.

I don't listen to the national anthem ironically. It's a beautiful song. I love it!

I will never stand for a national anthem again. I will turn my back and I will raise a fist.

I argued for years to have the Canadian anthem played at the US Open Racquetball Championship and on the 11th year, I got it. I teared up a bit when I heard the anthem. It was a highlight of my career, better than some of my wins.

Raising the flag and singing the anthem are, while somewhat suspicious, not in themselves acts of treason.

I certainly did my best to bring the story [Anthem] to life in another medium.

Sometimes, I stood at the front of the E train, watching the tunnel ahead, imagining what Anthem would look like on stage.

There shall be a National Anthem containing incomprehensible words and a high note that normal humans cannot hit without risk of hernia.