51 Quotes About Anthem

We also will do some music that is representative of the country that we are visiting. We brought in a native of Croatia who moved here a few years ago and speaks the language. So we were able to teach the boys some words and pronunciation and she was nice enough to bring us folk songs and the national anthem of Croatia. We learned those things and are hoping to do them while we are on tour. It is nice to show people you are making an attempt to learn a little bit about their language and culture.

It was something different today. I've never heard the anthem sung that loud. The noise coming from the crowd at the end was fantastic and dragged us to the end really.

Geddy Lee and I went to the same grade school. He moved away when we were still young, but I remember him like I do all my friends from back then. Then in 1982, Dave Thomas and I were approached to do a record as the McKenzie Brothers on Anthem Records, the same label that Rush was on.

You just can't go out and find somebody who's going to sing the anthem with respect,

He was standing in stocking feet during the national anthem when the guy ran in with the sneakers. His focus wasn't real strong that night on his part. He didn't have one of his better games because that was distraction to him.

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.

There is nothing to take a man’s freedom away from him, save other men (pg. 101).

The national anthem is kind of a hard song to sing sometimes, and God gave me the strength to put it together.

I tell you the groans of the damned in hell are the deep bass of the universal anthem of praise that shall ascend to the throne of my God for ever and ever.