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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: 48
Born: 1976
Born: October 22
Guitarist
Musician
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
San Bernardino County
California
Jonathan Mark Foreman
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If you truly love someone, you're going to be pure because true love comes from God, and God tells us to remain pure. That's good enough for me.
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Life is a battlefield. I don't have enough time on the planet to play games.
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Why is it that everything is collapsing if gravity is pulling us together?
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Your story matters, who you are matters, tonight matters, none of it is an accident. You were born for the blue skies.
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I try to write songs just for the song itself. I don't try and think about where it's going to end up, that way you're writing for the good of the song.
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I think that's the beauty of live music - creating from the destruction.
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Paste just might be my favorite music magazine. They have shed light on many incredible, under-appreciated folks over the years, helping me find new tunes to accompany me through life. We were honored to give a song in return.
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I look for places where there's no one out on the water. I'd rather surf a wave to myself than fight a crowd.
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You want songs to sound cohesive with the other songs on the record but when you first start writing you just want to write to tell the truth.
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I've never really had a desk job, but I've died one day at a time all over the place.
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Hope is not something you can just place in your back pocket or put your fingers around – it’s the belief in a world that has yet to exist.
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When our world falls apart and we have no more faces to wear - that’s when it’s beautiful, and that’s when we change.
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For me, the good songs are the ones that come really naturally. There are certain songs that you rework and rewrite and the craft becomes very evident, but a lot of times those aren't my favorite songs. The favorite songs are the ones that I can't even hear my own voice in.
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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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Music is mere tuning a song with words to some degree you have a beautiful endeavor of cosigning God's blank checks and you're actually co-creating. You're certainly not the creator with the capital C, but you're embarking on an endeavor, you're using the building blocks that have been given to you by the author of time and space.
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I'm not really one to be on camera, I'd rather be writing songs.
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When I'm happy, when I'm enjoying life, I'm home, I'm surfing, I'm spending time with my wife, my friends and I'm not thinking about the pain. And then the moment I encounter something that feels difficult, I feel like that's when, for me, I turn to writing and thinking and maybe a song comes from that.
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If comparison is the thief of joy, then our culture is being robbed blind.
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I've got a variety of different sources of news that I follow and every day there's going to be different headlines, different stories spun different ways and different sources that they're going to cite as their facts.
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Music is admitted under the skin without permission.
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