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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.

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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Information has become king, whereas wisdom should be king and there is a big difference between the two.
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What you do with your life is ascribing more to what you invest your time in. If you spend a lot of time on your phone, you're ascribing more worship to that. Anything can become, by that definition, some form of idol or deity or ultimate worth in your life.
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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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We were meant to live for so much more.
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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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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've never really had a desk job, but I've died one day at a time all over the place.
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Hope is not a substitute for pain. Hope is in spite of pain.
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It's really hard to fit a complex idea into a 3-minute pop song. And when you're dealing with issues that you're passionate about, usually they have various levels. And within a poem, you can get around the issue of space, and in a song the same way, by simply leaving holes and alluding to what you're talking about.
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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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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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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 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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If we spend our time obsessing with the future or regretting the past, then we will never live. Tomorrow will always be tomorrow and yesterday cannot be changed.
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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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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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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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I think that's the beauty of live music - creating from the destruction.
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Music will always be judged by our subjective ears.
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