A Quote by Ronald Kessler

If Madison Avenue advertising executives were to pick a song that would best represent America, the last one they would choose is 'The Star Spangled Banner.'

Ronald Kessler

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Ronald Kessler
American - Journalist
Born: December 31, 1943

In this day and age, love is temporary and marriage is unnatural--the product of Madison Avenue advertising executives and television producers.

Michael Palmer

Remembering growing up on U.S. Army bases stateside and abroad, the Star-Spangled Banner was played at important occasions... and often. It was the first song I learned the lyrics to.

Harris Faulkner

I don't give a damn about "The Missouri Waltz" but I can't say it out loud because it's the song of Missouri. It's as bad as "The Star-Spangled Banner" so far as music is concerned.

Harry S. Truman

I'm a star, no spangled banner

Drake

The problem of how to make the Internet advertising friendly bewildered and obsessed Madison Avenue for much of the 1990s. Advertising won.

Robert Waterman McChesney

The last ever dolphin message was misinterpreted as a surprisingly sophisticated attempt to do a double-backwards-somersault through a hoop whilst whistling the 'Star Spangled Banner', but in fact the message was this: So long and thanks for all the fish.

Douglas Adams

I wake up every morning singing The Star-Spangled Banner.

Terry McAuliffe

I wake up every morning singing 'The Star-Spangled Banner.'

Terry McAuliffe

Red House Painters were doing cover songs before our first record deal. I remember live shows where we did an AC/DC song; I think we did 'Send In The Clowns' by Judy Collins. We did 'The Star Spangled Banner,' which came out on our third record.

Mark Kozelek

I learned 'The Star-Spangled Banner,' the national anthem. I always wanted to play it before the Bulls game, but I always thought, like, Coach would be like, 'You're not focused on the game!' So I never really asked.

Jimmy Butler

I sing the Star Spangled Banner, so I can get into football, basketball and baseball games for free.

John Cullum

And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave, O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

Francis Scott Key

Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?

Bill Veeck

If you look at the heritage of the best advertising, you can make stuff that is great for both readers and advertisers. I don't think Don Draper would have loved banner ads.

Jonah Peretti

The worst professional advice I've received. "If you were the last person on earth, I would never choose you to be a movie star."

Steve Guttenberg

There are certainly numberless women of fashion who consider it perfectly natural to go miles down Fifth Avenue, or Madison Avenue, yet for whom a voyage of half a dozen blocks to east or west would be an adventure, almost a dangerous impairment of good breeding.

Jules Romains

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