Top 252 Anthem Quotes & Sayings

I sing the Italian anthem with all my soul, with my whole body.

I love the national anthem.

A lot of people get upset by any protest - people taking a knee during the national anthem or raising a fist. As if we're being disrespectful. Or rude to the national anthem or to our soldiers, you know what I'm saying? It's deeper than that.

At school my nickname is the National Anthem girl.

The idea for Anthem the play began over twenty years ago. I was assisting in the production of another Ayn Rand work, Ideal. I moved to New York and began working on producing the play with my partners. And as a way to raise money to cover some venture debt, we decided to stage Anthem for a limited run at the Lex Theatre in Hollywood.

And I respect the anthem. I would never kneel for it. We all come from different walks of life and think differently about the anthem and the flag and what that means.

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

Ayn Rand called her novella Anthem a "hymn to man's ego." My approach to Anthem the play was to provide the story a further dimension through music and sound. The work is now larger than a hymn. It's really "spoken opera."

If you are not taught Tagore in school, your association is limited to reciting the National Anthem.

To me, there's two symbols for Team U.S.A.: the national anthem and the American flag.

'Freebird' is an anthem, and 'Simple Man' is a very nice song.

... The Anarchists' [national] anthem is an international anthem that consists of 365 raspberries blown in very quick succession to the tune of Camptown Races. Nobody has to stand up for it, nobody has to listen to it, and, even better, nobody has to play it.

I was the first artist to put the national anthem on the charts, and I'm thrilled.

I came from a military family, so there are a lot of things I think about when the anthem is playing.

I must say I personally prefer the FC Cologne anthem over the Liverpool one.

I'm very excited to once again perform the National Anthem at Michigan International Speedway for the GFS Marketplace 400. The fans at MIS have always been great to me and it is always an honor to perform for them, whether it's a concert or the National Anthem.

I turned sadness into an anthem for not letting anything or anyone slow you down.

The national anthem blows. Are you kidding me? Do any of you have it on your iPod?

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

I'm a part of major league rugby. We had a league meeting to decide what to do with anthem protests, and even though I personally agree with what they say they are protesting as inequality and judicial system and incarceration rates among minorities, we decided all should stand and respect every national anthem.

When you hear the Champions League anthem, it gives you goosebumps.

We legitimately walked into 'Anthem' head-on, not paying enough attention to internal band tension.

I believe it's not 100 percent right to kneel during the national anthem, because you have to respect what many have done for this nation. I think kneeling prior to the anthem, like the Dallas Cowboys have done, is right.

I personally think our national anthem is not patriotic enough. There is another poem by Dwijendralal Ray called 'Dhono Dhanne Pushpe Bhora,' which is more soul-stirring as a national anthem.

I sang the National Anthem at Dodger Stadium - at a baseball game - which was crazy; there was, like, 60,000 people there, which is a huge deal in America - singing the National Anthem.

I had so much backlash because, before in NXT, I used to come out with the Bulgarian national anthem. And people were like, 'Oh, why are you embarrassing the anthem?' How am I embarrassing the anthem? I'm from the freaking country.

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

As I've gotten older, I've realized the element that sounds like The Gaslight Anthem that's mine is always going to be me. The other three-fourths of it is going to be the other guys. I can't stop doing what I do naturally, whether I'm in The Gaslight Anthem or my own thing.

I got tired of seeing people rush through the national anthem so they could have their popcorn and get to the game. Nobody ever sang the anthem with soul. It was always done clinically and they always stuck to the original. I put feeling into it. I sang it in a soulful manner.

'Anthem' was the record that almost didn't get made for a completely different reason than 'Underneath.'

Jumping twenty or so years later, Ann Ciccolella, artistic director of Austin Shakespeare, approached me with the idea of staging Anthem. She had heard my film score to Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life. And she said, I want to do Anthem as an oratorio. Well, I figured what she meant was a straight play with music.

I sang the National Anthem with soul.

I like everything about Real Madrid, even the club anthem.

I don't think kneeling during the anthem is such a bad thing.

I'll stand for the anthem, I don't have a problem standing for it.

The thing about the national anthem is that it's actually a pretty difficult song to sing for anybody.

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

We're going to be the best in the league at something. We're deep in anthem singers.

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

The Champions League anthem always motivates you in a special way.

You might be a redneck if you have started a petition to change the National Anthem to Georgia on My Mind.

People who tend to listen to my music have come back and said, 'Yo, this is my anthem. This is what I live by.'

'Southcliffe' is an anthem to ordinary people's ability to reinvent themselves in the face of ultimate darkness.

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.

I've heard a lot of people say you need white athletes to get involved in the anthem protests. I've said before I'll never kneel for an anthem, because the flag means something different for everybody in this country, but I support my peers.

Actually, one Anthem cue is a good example of the process. There is a four-minute sequence of music in Anthem, which underscores a prison sequence, and it lines up with five different, smaller scenes within one large scene.

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

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

The thing that I really love to do, that I now only do in the shower, is to sing the national anthem.

When I did the anthem, I did it with the understanding in my heart and mind that I did it because I'm a patriot. I was trying to be a grateful patriot. I was expressing my feelings for America when I did the anthem my way instead of just singing it with an orchestra.

I wanted to write a song that's known to the world as a classic, stadium-rock anthem.

When I represent the Under-21s and sing the national anthem, there is no better feeling.

I like traditions, and the national anthem is important.

Heartbreak is the national anthem. We sing it proudly.

Bobby Orr was a star when they played the National Anthem in his first game.

We've been doing work outside of the anthem since the beginning. Before the anthem even started, players were involved in these types of social justice issues. The anthem protests or demonstrations just brought eyes and attention to it.

'The Star-Spangled Banner' should've never been made into our national anthem. That President Woodrow Wilson, widely thought to be one of the most bigoted presidents ever elected, chose it as our national anthem, is painfully telling as well.

'American Idiot' is not only one of my favorite albums of all time, it's become an anthem of a generation.

Mitt Romney's rally in Mansfield, Ohio, on Monday began the way every political event begins. 'Please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance and our country's national anthem.' This is always an uncomfortable moment for me. While I sat at my laptop, most of the reporters around me stood and put their hands over their hearts. This time instead of just sitting and working, I tweeted what I was feeling: 'Ari_Shapiro: As a reporter I'm torn about joining in the pledge of allegiance/national anthem at rallies. I'm a rally observer, not a participant.'

The Gaslight Anthem is very streamlined. We don't usually use organs and strings and things like that.