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.
I don't listen to the national anthem ironically. It's a beautiful song. I love it!
I wanted to write a song that's known to the world as a classic, stadium-rock anthem.
I certainly did my best to bring the story [Anthem] to life in another medium.
If you think the last four words to the national anthem are " gentleman, start your engines", You might be a redneck.
I savored my time on top of the podium by watching the American flag rise up out of the crowd as the anthem played, thinking about how every single second of training Ive done was for this minute and how many people played a role in my achievement.
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.
Sometimes, I stood at the front of the E train, watching the tunnel ahead, imagining what Anthem would look like on stage.
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.
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.
Anytime I sing the anthem, it is an honor and my heart beats out of my chest.
There is really a je ne sais quoi about turkey cooking - the air of festivity, the family squabbles, the constant basting - that does not apply to the turkey breast, which is, really, a convenience of food. . . A turkey without seasonal angst is like a baseball game without a national anthem, a winter without snow, a birthday party without candles.
Too bad the freedom seemed like a prison. As his boots hit the mosaic floor at the bottom of the stairs, John Mellencamp's old-school, bic-lighter anthem echoed in his head-and though he'd always like the song okay, he'd never truly understood what it meant. Kind of wished that were still the case. Life goes on. . . long after the thrill of living is gone.
You might be a redneck if you have started a petition to change the National Anthem to Georgia on My Mind.
I had lots of breaks. I guess the one that got my foot in the door was singing the National Anthem at the National Finals Rodeo in Oklahoma City in '74.
Heartbreak is the national anthem. We sing it proudly.
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.
Colin Kaepernick is the latest professional athlete to spark a national debate about the meaning behind the American flag and the national anthem.
The only thing I can cheer for in Philadelphia is the national anthem.
My parents had a sidewalk cafe: every Sunday there was an accordion player and apparently I went through the motions, squeezing a shoebox. One of the regulars in 'the cafe said to my father: "I think you should get your son an accordion-that's what he's trying to do, with that shoebox. " So they got me a little cardboard diatonic accordion-I still have it. I started to play the National Anthem, and things like that. It seems I was musically gifted-but my parents just never pushed in that direction.
