Patriotic Music Quotes

The Regulars are coming out!

Most people know we're kind of one of the only bands around right now that will admit that we're Republican.

The Pole listening to Chopin listens to the voice of his whole race.

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.

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

The Fourth of July concert is invigorating in so many ways, in terms of what it feels like to be an American.

When I composed a song on Bhagat Singh, it flopped. But my other songs about partying and all that are superhits!

Kiss is a Fourth of July fireworks show with a backbeat.

Some anthems are great for sports. You've got the Russian national anthem... 'O Canada,' how wonderful is that for hockey... but I chose the Italian national song because at my first World Cup, I saw the Italians play four times, and they won all four times - they won the championship.

I saw how different life was on different sides of the same city. I saw the fear in the eyes of people who were not free. I saw the gratitude of people toward the United States for all that we had done. I felt goosebumps as I got off a military train and heard the Army band strike up 'Stars and Stripes Forever.'

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

If you're going to write an anthem for an old man who's up at political bat for the last time, give him a decent song. Send him off with something that creates some chills or something.

We always say that National songs have to have a heart, that we don't make cold songs.

I just think it would be super cheesy for this Navy SEAL to start singing.

The song that nerves a nation's heart is in itself a deed.

Every battalion has its marching songs.

My early childhood memories center around this typical American country store and life in a small American town, including 4th of July celebrations marked by fireworks and patriotic music played from a pavilion bandstand.

Some Lynyrd Skynyrd songs are literally the backdrop of America. Songs like 'Simple Man' and 'Free Bird' and 'Alabama.' I wasn't prepared for how emotional the crowd gets during the songs.

Country has just crossed so many lines now, that Skynyrd falls right into that category.