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Live rather than talk. Talk is cheap and the tabloids scream about it every day.

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
Scream
Talk
Rather
Live
Every
Tabloids
Cheap

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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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If we spend our time obsessing with the future or regretting the past, then we will never live. Tomorrow will always be tomorrow and yesterday cannot be changed.
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Switchfoot is a surfing term… To switch your feet means to take a new stance facing the opposite direction. It's about change and movement, a different way of approaching life and music.
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Music is admitted under the skin without permission.
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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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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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Being a creator of a song I get to take all these broken fragments of failure and chaos and weave together something beautiful and meaningful. Decay. Death. Pain. Fall. And if God is a songwriter then these fallen leaves of mine can be redeemed
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There’s nothing that you can sell me that can make me happy.
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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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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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It’s a good thing my parents named me Jon because that’s what everyone calls me.
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Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love another.
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That's what life is, a continual state of journey. You are a river passing downstream.
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I'm not really one to be on camera, I'd rather be writing songs.
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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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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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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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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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My dying planet needs to see what the body of Christ looks like.
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