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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.

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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Pockets
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Fingers
Exist
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Hope
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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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Every day of your life, you change the world. Absolutely, yes, we're out to change the world. I mean, you change it whether you like it or not. You wake up and you talk to the grocer. You either kick your dog or you pet him. There's a million decisions you have every day where you change the world.
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It's really hard to fit a complex idea into a 3-minute pop song. And when you're dealing with issues that you're passionate about, usually they have various levels. And within a poem, you can get around the issue of space, and in a song the same way, by simply leaving holes and alluding to what you're talking about.
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For me, I want to create a environment for the songs to live in. So one song by itself only tells a piece of the story, but in the context of the album, more of the colors are revealed.
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Maybe truth is not something that I can possess. Maybe truth is something which possesses me.
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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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If comparison is the thief of joy, then our culture is being robbed blind.
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Music is admitted under the skin without permission.
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You wake up, you wake up, another day, you wake up, you wake up, traffic still moving at the same speed, our eyes looking at the same speed, our minds thinking at the same speed, I wanna see movement, I wanna see change. I wanna wake up for real. I wanna wake up. I wanna wake up. We were meant to live.
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There’s nothing that you can sell me that can make me happy.
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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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Life is a battlefield. I don't have enough time on the planet to play games.
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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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Nothing stays together without a fight.
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Live rather than talk. Talk is cheap and the tabloids scream about it every day.
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I usually write from my own experience, and that's definitely a true statement for me. I think having a song about desiring to live and wanting to get it right, which many of my songs do, often I have to clarify that I haven't figured it out yet.
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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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For me songs are born out of the gray space, the things I don't fully understand, the things that I can't put in my pocket.
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I love the idea that you can create a world through song.
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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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