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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.
Jon Foreman
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Jon Foreman
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: October 22
Guitarist
Musician
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Singer-Songwriter
San Bernardino County
California
Jonathan Mark Foreman
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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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I love a good pop song. I have no problem with the concept of doing that sort of thing. For me, it's usually what I'm inspired by, what I'm thinking about.
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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 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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As far as when I'm writing a song, I think I'm writing first and foremost for myself.
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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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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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That's what life is, a continual state of journey. You are a river passing downstream.
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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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Music will always be judged by our subjective ears.
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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 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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My dying planet needs to see what the body of Christ looks like.
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There’s nothing that you can sell me that can make me happy.
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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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Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love another.
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Most of the time a spark of beauty or truth will start a fire of a song but fires rarely produce goodness on their own ... you need to control them and put them to work.
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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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Switchfoot is a surfing term… To switch your feet means to take a new stance facing the opposite direction. It's about change and movement, a different way of approaching life and music.
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Music is mere tuning a song with words to some degree you have a beautiful endeavor of cosigning God's blank checks and you're actually co-creating. You're certainly not the creator with the capital C, but you're embarking on an endeavor, you're using the building blocks that have been given to you by the author of time and space.
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