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Hope is not a substitute for pain. Hope is in spite of pain.

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
Substitute
Substitutes
Spite
Hope
Pain

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I wanna be a part of the generation that throws out money, throws out time, throws out all that we are against something bigger than ourselves.
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Inside all of us, we know the truth of life that there's something more than the next new cell phone or gadget or relationship and that our heart beats in time with the sunset.
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Anything worth doing in this world is incredibly difficult to do.
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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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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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There’s nothing that you can sell me that can make me happy.
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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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Music is admitted under the skin without permission.
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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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We were meant to live for so much more.
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I think that's the beauty of live music - creating from the destruction.
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Maybe truth is not something that I can possess. Maybe truth is something which possesses me.
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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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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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