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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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Jon Foreman
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: October 22
Guitarist
Musician
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
San Bernardino County
California
Jonathan Mark Foreman
Apart
Wear
Faces
Fall
Beautiful
Change
World
Falls

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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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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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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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There’s nothing that you can sell me that can make me happy.
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I simply want the music to to find its way to open-minded people.
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If comparison is the thief of joy, then our culture is being robbed blind.
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Anything worth doing in this world is incredibly difficult to do.
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Happiness is like peeing in your pants. Everyone can see it, but only you can feel the warmth.
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Music is admitted under the skin without permission.
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Calling has this weight that somehow we think that your calling is fixed. That your calling is this line that you’ve finally found and now you're on that track and that’s what you’re gonna do forever and maybe that's the case. But I feel like calling has much more to to do with the moment that you’re in.
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Hope is not a substitute for pain. Hope is in spite of pain.
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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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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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Why is it that everything is collapsing if gravity is pulling us together?
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If you can have a couple of tight friends that you can tell things to, that you can say, 'Hey, this is what I'm struggling with,' and then pray and talk about it, then that's an incredible thing.
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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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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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Maybe truth is not something that I can possess. Maybe truth is something which possesses me.
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Most of the time a spark of beauty or truth will start a fire of a song but fires rarely produce goodness on their own ... you need to control them and put them to work.
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Music will always be judged by our subjective ears.
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