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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.

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
Heart
Cells
Something
Phone
Time
Phones
Life
Beats
Inside
Gadget
Relationship
Gadgets
Next
Cell
Truth
Sunset

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Maybe truth is not something that I can possess. Maybe truth is something which possesses me.
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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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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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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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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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We were meant to live for so much more.
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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’ve never used music to sell my faith and I’ve never used faith to sell my music. I think they are both intrinsic parts of who I am. We’ve always tried to define our music outside of genres…what is a genre? A genre’s a cage or a box and for us our music is best with fangs and some claws running free in the wild.
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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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There are certain songs that I like to listen to at certain times of the day. For example, first thing in the morning I love listening to Flamenco Sketches off of Miles Davis' Kind of Blue.
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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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I am often tempted to think of success in terms that are defined by others: records sold, popularity gained, album reviews, etc. These are impossible demands, however, and they can never be satisfied. Letting finite others define our worth is a horrible way to live. Only the Infinite Other [God] has the authority to do this.
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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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I look for places where there's no one out on the water. I'd rather surf a wave to myself than fight a crowd.
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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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Don't be discouraged, but know that suffering produces perseverance, perseverance brings character, and character brings hope, and this is a hope which will not disappoint us.
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Life is a battlefield. I don't have enough time on the planet to play games.
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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 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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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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