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It’s a good thing my parents named me Jon because that’s what everyone calls me.

Jon Foreman

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Jon Foreman
Age: 47
Born: 1976
Born: October 22
Guitarist
Musician
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
San Bernardino County
California
Jonathan Mark Foreman
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Life tears at us and scars us as children so we adopt facades and masks to hide this part of us, to keep this sacred part of ourselves from the pain.
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Let me know that you hear me, let me know Your touch, let me know that You love me, and let that be enough
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There is a deeper portion of our being that we rarely allow others to see. Call it a soul maybe, this is the place that holds the most value. All else can drift but this. When this dies our body has no meaning.
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As far as when I'm writing a song, I think I'm writing first and foremost for myself.
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Information has become king, whereas wisdom should be king and there is a big difference between the two.
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It was a beautiful letdown, the day I knew, that all the riches this world had to offer me, will never do.
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What do we really want to say to the world? Three main themes. The inability to find completion in our modern society, the inability to find completion within ourselves, and the new way to be human in what Christ offers us - His love and His perfect plan of redemption for us.
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Maybe truth is not something that I can possess. Maybe truth is something which possesses me.
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That's what life is, a continual state of journey. You are a river passing downstream.
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I'm always thinking about songs, I'm thinking of life maybe a little bit more lyrically than a computer programmer or someone like that.
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I simply want the music to to find its way to open-minded people.
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Music will always be judged by our subjective ears.
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I think that's the beauty of live music - creating from the destruction.
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Well, the funny thing is, you are never the same person that you were the day before.
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Music is a handshake where I, as a songwriter, am only part of the equation. I love that, the fact that you can make the song your own.
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The easiest thing to do is throw a rock. It's a lot harder to create a stained glass window. I used to get upset at the people who threw rocks but now I'd rather spend my time building the stained glass windows.
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What you do with your life is ascribing more to what you invest your time in. If you spend a lot of time on your phone, you're ascribing more worship to that. Anything can become, by that definition, some form of idol or deity or ultimate worth in your life.
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Being a creator of a song I get to take all these broken fragments of failure and chaos and weave together something beautiful and meaningful. Decay. Death. Pain. Fall. And if God is a songwriter then these fallen leaves of mine can be redeemed
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If comparison is the thief of joy, then our culture is being robbed blind.
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Stars looking at our planet, watching entropy and pain and maybe startin' to wonder how the chaos in our lives could pass as sane. I've been thinkin' 'bout the meaning of resistance of a world beyond our own and suddenly the infinite and penitent began to look like home.
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