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If comparison is the thief of joy, then our culture is being robbed blind.

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
Culture
Robbed
Thief
Thieves
Comparison
Blind
Joy

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When I'm happy, when I'm enjoying life, I'm home, I'm surfing, I'm spending time with my wife, my friends and I'm not thinking about the pain. And then the moment I encounter something that feels difficult, I feel like that's when, for me, I turn to writing and thinking and maybe a song comes from that.
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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'm not really one to be on camera, I'd rather be writing songs.
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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 use to think that the friction was a bad thing. Everything is to ease pain in our society pain is very much the enemy. And I don't think that's true. Tension is a good thing. To be pulled tight: that's the only way you can make a proper noise on the guitar or violin.
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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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Happiness is like peeing in your pants. Everyone can see it, but only you can feel the warmth.
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Music is admitted under the skin without permission.
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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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I began thinking about the idea of a 24 hour concert. What if you tied songs to certain hours of the day - creating a 24 hour world of lyric and melody. So that was the inspiration for this project.
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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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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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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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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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If you truly love someone, you're going to be pure because true love comes from God, and God tells us to remain pure. That's good enough for me.
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Anything worth doing in this world is incredibly difficult to do.
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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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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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There’s nothing that you can sell me that can make me happy.
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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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