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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.

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
Character
Disappoint
Discouraged
Produces
Perseverance
Brings
Produce
Suffering
Hope

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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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That's what life is, a continual state of journey. You are a river passing downstream.
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What you do with your life is ascribing more to what you invest your time in. If you spend a lot of time on your phone, you're ascribing more worship to that. Anything can become, by that definition, some form of idol or deity or ultimate worth in your life.
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If you're leaving your family behind, you better believe in what you're singing.
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Live rather than talk. Talk is cheap and the tabloids scream about it every day.
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If comparison is the thief of joy, then our culture is being robbed blind.
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I think despair and cynicism are two different things. On the flip side of hope is despair. Belief and doubt are the same thing, in that to believe something you have to actively doubt the opposite. And from my perspective, that's the deep end. You're dealing with the unknown you're dealing with mystery.
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Maybe truth is not something that I can possess. Maybe truth is something which possesses me.
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There’s nothing that you can sell me that can make me happy.
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I try to write songs just for the song itself. I don't try and think about where it's going to end up, that way you're writing for the good of the song.
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Let me know that you hear me, let me know Your touch, let me know that You love me, and let that be enough
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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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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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I want to be a compassionate soul, finding worth and beauty in the worlds around me and within me, attempting to sing a transcendent tune with my temporal position in this life.
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I think that's the beauty of live music - creating from the destruction.
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Hope is not a substitute for pain. Hope is in spite of pain.
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Paste just might be my favorite music magazine. They have shed light on many incredible, under-appreciated folks over the years, helping me find new tunes to accompany me through life. We were honored to give a song in return.
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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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Music will always be judged by our subjective ears.
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I think surfing and music are both places of release and self expression where there are no rules, and you can find a different form of freedom that you can't anywhere else.
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