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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.
Jon Foreman
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Jon Foreman
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: October 22
Guitarist
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Singer-Songwriter
San Bernardino County
California
Jonathan Mark Foreman
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Well, the funny thing is, you are never the same person that you were the day before.
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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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Information has become king, whereas wisdom should be king and there is a big difference between the two.
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Maybe truth is not something that I can possess. Maybe truth is something which possesses me.
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That's what life is, a continual state of journey. You are a river passing downstream.
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