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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
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Hope
Pain

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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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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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Maybe truth is not something that I can possess. Maybe truth is something which possesses me.
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Anything worth doing in this world is incredibly difficult to do.
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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 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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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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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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Well, the funny thing is, you are never the same person that you were the day before.
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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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It’s a good thing my parents named me Jon because that’s what everyone calls me.
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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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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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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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I simply want the music to to find its way to open-minded people.
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Sometimes it can be really hard in our fast paced society to slow ourselves down enough to begin to listen to God's voice. The dilemma exists in my position as well. To be a follower of Christ is to emulate Him. When He went off alone into the desert to pray, He was teaching a valuable lesson.
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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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I've always been fascinated with the strong emotional ties that music can have. A song can bring you back to a place or a season of life like no other art form can.
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I love the idea that you can create a world through song.
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If you're leaving your family behind, you better believe in what you're singing.
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