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Nothing stays together without a fight.

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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
Nothing
Stays
Fight
Fighting
Together
Without

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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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The easiest thing to do is throw a rock. It's a lot harder to create a stained glass window. I used to get upset at the people who threw rocks but now I'd rather spend my time building the stained glass windows.
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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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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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Music is admitted under the skin without permission.
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I'm not really one to be on camera, I'd rather be writing songs.
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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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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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It’s a good thing my parents named me Jon because that’s what everyone calls me.
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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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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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That's what life is, a continual state of journey. You are a river passing downstream.
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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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There’s nothing that you can sell me that can make me happy.
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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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As far as when I'm writing a song, I think I'm writing first and foremost for myself.
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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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Happiness is like peeing in your pants. Everyone can see it, but only you can feel the warmth.
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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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Hope is not a substitute for pain. Hope is in spite of pain.
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