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As far as when I'm writing a song, I think I'm writing first and foremost for myself.

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
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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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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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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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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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Live rather than talk. Talk is cheap and the tabloids scream about it every day.
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Well, the funny thing is, you are never the same person that you were the day before.
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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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Life tears at us and scars us as children so we adopt facades and masks to hide this part of us, to keep this sacred part of ourselves from the pain.
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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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If you're leaving your family behind, you better believe in what you're singing.
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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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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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Why is it that everything is collapsing if gravity is pulling us together?
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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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Life is a battlefield. I don't have enough time on the planet to play games.
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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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There’s nothing that you can sell me that can make me happy.
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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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What do we really want to say to the world? Three main themes. The inability to find completion in our modern society, the inability to find completion within ourselves, and the new way to be human in what Christ offers us - His love and His perfect plan of redemption for us.
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I think that's the beauty of live music - creating from the destruction.
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