--- title: "32 Spangled Banner Quotes by 28 authors" description: "Browse 32 Spangled Banner quotes by 28 authors. Discover the best Spangled Banner sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/af7/terry-mcauliffe-18328_banner_i-wake-up-every-morning-singing-the-star_1454648.png" --- > [I wake up every morning singing 'The Star-Spangled Banner.'](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-mcauliffe/i-wake-up-every-morning-singing-the-star-spangled-banner/) [Terry McAuliffe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-mcauliffe/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/af7/terry-mcauliffe-18328_banner_i-wake-up-every-morning-singing-the-star_1454648.png) > [I'm a star, no spangled banner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/drake/i-m-a-star-no-spangled-banner/) [Drake](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/drake/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b7c/drake-44_astronomy_i-m-a-star-no-spangled-banner-2896208_2896208.png) > [I've got so much brass up my ass that I can play the Star Spangled Banner. -Capt. Howard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bad-boys-2/i-ve-got-so-much-brass-up-my-ass-that-i-can-play-the-star-spangled/) [Bad Boys 2](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bad-boys-2/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aee/bad-boys-2-26556_quote_i-ve-got-so-much-brass-up-my-ass-that-i_618441.jpg) > [I sing the 'Star Spangled Banner,' so I can get into football, basketball and baseball games for free.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-cullum/i-sing-the-star-spangled-banner-so-i-can-get-into-football-basketball/) [John Cullum](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-cullum/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/930/john-cullum-40183_ball-game_i-sing-the-star-spangled-banner-so-i-can_2551661.jpg) > [And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave, O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-scott-key/and-the-star-spangled-banner-in-triumph-doth-wave-o-er-the-land-of/) [Francis Scott Key](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francis-scott-key/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/18f/francis-scott-key-34659_banner_and-the-star-spangled-banner-in-triumph_2977442.png) > [Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-veeck/look-we-play-the-star-spangled-banner-before-every-game-you-want-us/) [Bill Veeck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-veeck/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/feb/bill-veeck-14961_banner_look-we-play-the-star-spangled-banner-be_2599544.png) > [And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave/O're the land of the free and the home of the brave.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-scott-key/and-the-star-spangled-banner-in-triumph-shall-wave-o-re-the-land-of/) [Francis Scott Key](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francis-scott-key/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/206/francis-scott-key-34659_banner_and-the-star-spangled-banner-in-triumph_1311166.png) > [“Nobody's truly free. Everyone is prisoner to a secret, a sin, a lie. It wasn't by accident that, in the Star Spangled…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-matthew-nespoli/nobody-s-truly-free-everyone-is-prisoner-to-a-secret-a-sin-a-lie-it/) [J. Matthew Nespoli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-matthew-nespoli/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/96a/j-matthew-nespoli-25436_free_nobody-s-truly-free-everyone-is-prisoner_1429056.jpg) > [“The singing triggers a soft detonation at his core, molten parts of him are flying everywhere and his ears ring to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-fountain/the-singing-triggers-a-soft-detonation-at-his-core-molten-parts-of/) [Ben Fountain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-fountain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/788/ben-fountain-3198_love_the-singing-triggers-a-soft-detonation-a_42176.png) > [“But as they stared into "The Star Spangled Banner," the music was blessedly drowned out by the squeal and moan of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victoria-wilcox/but-as-they-stared-into-the-star-spangled-banner-the-music-was/) [Victoria Wilcox](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victoria-wilcox/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f8e/victoria-wilcox-50396_astronomy_but-as-they-stared-into-the-star-spangle_2925416.jpg) > [If Madison Avenue advertising executives were to pick a song that would best represent America, the last one they would choose is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ronald-kessler/if-madison-avenue-advertising-executives-were-to-pick-a-song-that/) [Ronald Kessler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ronald-kessler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c09/ronald-kessler-13022_advertising_if-madison-avenue-advertising-executives_2762425.jpg) > [When Ronald Reagan was elected I was on a bus traveling with a band in France. I wrote a little arrangement of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carla-bley/when-ronald-reagan-was-elected-i-was-on-a-bus-traveling-with-a-band/) [Carla Bley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carla-bley/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5de/carla-bley-28151_band_when-ronald-reagan-was-elected-i-was-on_1228609.png) > [Remembering growing up on U.S. Army bases stateside and abroad, the Star-Spangled Banner was played at important occasions... and often. It was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harris-faulkner/remembering-growing-up-on-u-s-army-bases-stateside-and-abroad-the/) [Harris Faulkner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harris-faulkner/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/453/harris-faulkner-6729_army_remembering-growing-up-on-u-s-army-bases_87162.jpg) > [“Nearly everyone here is Irish, or Italian or Russian. But everyone displays their Star Spangled Banner in some prominent spot on their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/l-h-thomson/nearly-everyone-here-is-irish-or-italian-or-russian-but-everyone/) [L.H. Thomson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/l-h-thomson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/576/l-h-thomson-30912_spangled-banner_nearly-everyone-here-is-irish-or-italian_388869.jpg) > [I learned 'The Star-Spangled Banner,' the national anthem. I always wanted to play it before the Bulls game, but I always thought,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jimmy-butler/i-learned-the-star-spangled-banner-the-national-anthem-i-always/) [Jimmy Butler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jimmy-butler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b68/jimmy-butler-11215_always_i-learned-the-star-spangled-banner-the-n_857666.jpg) > [ “\[...\] I'd wake up in the middle of the night to the Star-Spangled Banner and some old film of a flag blowing… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-montoure/i-d-wake-up-in-the-middle-of-the-night-to-the-star-spangled-banner/) [Michael Montoure](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-montoure/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bc3/michael-montoure-25960_bygone_i-d-wake-up-in-the-middle-of-the-night-t_1438470.jpg) > [Red House Painters were doing cover songs before our first record deal. I remember live shows where we did an AC/DC song;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-kozelek/red-house-painters-were-doing-cover-songs-before-our-first-record/) [Mark Kozelek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-kozelek/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/33e/mark-kozelek-8742_clowns_red-house-painters-were-doing-cover-song_877565.jpg) > ['The Star-Spangled Banner' should've never been made into our national anthem. That President Woodrow Wilson, widely thought to be one of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shaun-king/the-star-spangled-banner-should-ve-never-been-made-into-our-national/) [Shaun King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shaun-king/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/153/shaun-king-5314_flag_the-star-spangled-banner-should-ve-never_3039351.png) > [Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation. Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just, And…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/f-scott-fitzgerald/praise-the-power-that-hath-made-and-preserved-us-a-nation-then/) [F. Scott Fitzgerald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/f-scott-fitzgerald/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9fb/f-scott-fitzgerald-72_banner_praise-the-power-that-hath-made-and-pres_2296318.jpg) > [Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light What so proudly we hailed as the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-scott-key/oh-say-can-you-see-by-the-dawn-s-early-light-what-so-proudly-we/) [Francis Scott Key](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francis-scott-key/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/caf/francis-scott-key-34659_air_oh-say-can-you-see-by-the-dawn-s-early-l_600364.jpg) > [“Pervy and redundant, don't you think?" I asked the big gay cop, who wouldn't know a va-jay-jay if it bounced up to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-moore/pervy-and-redundant-don-t-you-think-i-asked-the-big-gay-cop-who/) [Christopher Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-moore/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9fc/christopher-moore-353_bite-me_pervy-and-redundant-don-t-you-think-i-as_2406856.jpg) > [“In the afternoon the ship's company assembled aft, on deck, under the awnings; the flute, the asthmatic meodeon, and the consumptive clarinet…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/in-the-afternoon-the-ship-s-company-assembled-aft-on-deck-under-the/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2b7/mark-twain-22_business_in-the-afternoon-the-ship-s-company-asse_728982.jpg) > [One of my earliest memories... I knew three full verses of the Star Spangled Banner when I was seven or eight years…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dave-van-ronk/one-of-my-earliest-memories-i-knew-three-full-verses-of-the-star/) [Dave Van Ronk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dave-van-ronk/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ec7/dave-van-ronk-21329_banner_one-of-my-earliest-memories-i-knew-three_1853738.jpg) > [“Oh, say can you see by the dawn’s early light What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming? Whose broad…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-scott-key/oh-say-can-you-see-by-the-dawn-s-early-light-what-so-proudly-we-2/) [Francis Scott Key](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francis-scott-key/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ce2/francis-scott-key-34659_bright-star_oh-say-can-you-see-by-the-dawn-s-early-l_1143044.jpg) > [“O say, can you see, by the dawn’s early light, What so proudly we hail’d at the twilight’s last gleaming? Whose broad…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-david-ledbetter/o-say-can-you-see-by-the-dawn-s-early-light-what-so-proudly-we-hail-d/) [Mark David Ledbetter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-david-ledbetter/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dae/mark-david-ledbetter-34449_bright-star_o-say-can-you-see-by-the-dawn-s-early-li_2847117.jpg) > [“The night of September the 14th, 1814, saw heavy bombardment of Baltimore by the British. Despite this, the next morning, the large…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-goldstein/the-night-of-september-the-14th-1814-saw-heavy-bombardment-of/) [Jack Goldstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-goldstein/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dca/jack-goldstein-17049_american-flag_the-night-of-september-the-14th-1814-saw_170606.jpg) > [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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harry-s-truman/i-don-t-give-a-damn-about-the-missouri-waltz-but-i-can-t-say-it-out/) [Harry S. Truman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harry-s-truman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ff3/harry-s-truman-898_banner_i-don-t-give-a-damn-about-the-missouri-w_1816513.jpg) > [I've always been really nationalistic, and I had a brother killed in Korea. And I think the 'Star Spangled Banner,' even today…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerry-west/i-ve-always-been-really-nationalistic-and-i-had-a-brother-killed-in/) [Jerry West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerry-west/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/90e/jerry-west-7315_always_i-ve-always-been-really-nationalistic-an_28059.jpg) > [I can remember standing in the middle of the field after the race and seeing the American flag raised and hearing 'The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-robinson-schwartz/i-can-remember-standing-in-the-middle-of-the-field-after-the-race-and/) [Elizabeth Robinson Schwartz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-robinson-schwartz/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0d5/elizabeth-robinson-schwartz-75_after_i-can-remember-standing-in-the-middle-of_862570.jpg) > [I'm at an age where crying is easier for me now. I like it. I can cry at a poignant commercial; I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-romano/i-m-at-an-age-where-crying-is-easier-for-me-now-i-like-it-i-can-cry/) [Ray Romano](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-romano/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f0c/ray-romano-3515_age_i-m-at-an-age-where-crying-is-easier-for_1810773.jpg) > [I mean, it wasnt like I had said to myself beforehand, 'OK, I'm gonna go out there and sing 'The Star-Spangled Banner'…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jose-feliciano/i-mean-it-wasnt-like-i-had-said-to-myself-beforehand-ok-i-m-gonna-go/) [Jose Feliciano](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jose-feliciano/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2d0/jose-feliciano-5723_myself_i-mean-it-wasnt-like-i-had-said-to-mysel_2550238.jpg) > [O! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand Between their loved home and the war's desolation! Blest with victory and peace,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-scott-key/o-thus-be-it-ever-when-freemen-shall-stand-between-their-loved-home/) [Francis Scott Key](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francis-scott-key/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2fc/francis-scott-key-34659_banner_o-thus-be-it-ever-when-freemen-shall-sta_1626660.png) ## Top authors on Spangled Banner - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b009/author-francis-scott-key-35531.jpg) Francis Scott Key 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/spangled-banner/francis-scott-key/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/spangled-banner/#itemlist", "name": "Spangled Banner Quotes", "numberOfItems": 32, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I wake up every morning singing 'The Star-Spangled Banner.'", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Terry McAuliffe" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-mcauliffe/i-wake-up-every-morning-singing-the-star-spangled-banner/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/af7/terry-mcauliffe-18328_banner_i-wake-up-every-morning-singing-the-star_1454648.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/af7/terry-mcauliffe-18328_banner_i-wake-up-every-morning-singing-the-star_1454648.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/af7/terry-mcauliffe-18328_banner_i-wake-up-every-morning-singing-the-star_1454648.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I wake up every morning singing 'The Star-Spangled Banner.'” — Terry McAuliffe", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I'm a star, no spangled banner", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Drake" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/drake/i-m-a-star-no-spangled-banner/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b7c/drake-44_astronomy_i-m-a-star-no-spangled-banner-2896208_2896208.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b7c/drake-44_astronomy_i-m-a-star-no-spangled-banner-2896208_2896208.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b7c/drake-44_astronomy_i-m-a-star-no-spangled-banner-2896208_2896208.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I'm a star, no spangled banner” — Drake", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I've got so much brass up my ass that I can play the Star Spangled Banner. -Capt. 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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.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Shaun King" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shaun-king/the-star-spangled-banner-should-ve-never-been-made-into-our-national/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/153/shaun-king-5314_flag_the-star-spangled-banner-should-ve-never_3039351.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/153/shaun-king-5314_flag_the-star-spangled-banner-should-ve-never_3039351.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/153/shaun-king-5314_flag_the-star-spangled-banner-should-ve-never_3039351.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“'The Star-Spangled Banner' should've never been made into our national anthem. 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I'm just saying.) --Being the Journal of Abby Normal”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Christopher Moore" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-moore/pervy-and-redundant-don-t-you-think-i-asked-the-big-gay-cop-who/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9fc/christopher-moore-353_bite-me_pervy-and-redundant-don-t-you-think-i-as_2406856.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9fc/christopher-moore-353_bite-me_pervy-and-redundant-don-t-you-think-i-as_2406856.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9fc/christopher-moore-353_bite-me_pervy-and-redundant-don-t-you-think-i-as_2406856.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Pervy and redundant, don't you think?\" I asked the big gay cop, who wouldn't know a va-jay-jay if it bounced…” — Christopher Moore", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 22, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“In the afternoon the ship's company assembled aft, on deck, under the awnings; the flute, the asthmatic meodeon, and the consumptive clarinet crippled the Star Spangled Banner, the choir chased it to cover, and George came in with a peculiarly lacerating screech on the final note and slaughtered it. 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Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro’ the perilous fight, O’er the ramparts we watch’d, were so gallantly streaming? And the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof thro’ the night that our flag was still there. O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave? On the shore dimly seen thro’ the mists of the deep, Where the foe’s haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze, o’er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses? Now it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam, In full glory reflected, now shines on the stream: ‘Tis the star-spangled banner: O long may it wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave! And where is that band who so vauntingly swore That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion, A home and a country should leave us no more? Their blood has wash’d out their foul footsteps’ pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave: And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave. O thus be it ever when free-men shall stand Between their lov’d home and the war’s desolation; Blest with vict’ry and peace, may the heav’n-rescued land Praise the Pow’r that hath made and preserv’d us a nation! Then conquer we must when our cause it is just, And this be our motto: In God is our trust!” And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Mark David Ledbetter" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-david-ledbetter/o-say-can-you-see-by-the-dawn-s-early-light-what-so-proudly-we-hail-d/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dae/mark-david-ledbetter-34449_bright-star_o-say-can-you-see-by-the-dawn-s-early-li_2847117.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dae/mark-david-ledbetter-34449_bright-star_o-say-can-you-see-by-the-dawn-s-early-li_2847117.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dae/mark-david-ledbetter-34449_bright-star_o-say-can-you-see-by-the-dawn-s-early-li_2847117.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“O say, can you see, by the dawn’s early light, What so proudly we hail’d at the twilight’s last gleaming?…” — Mark David Ledbetter", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 26, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“The night of September the 14th, 1814, saw heavy bombardment of Baltimore by the British. 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