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I've always been fascinated with the strong emotional ties that music can have. A song can bring you back to a place or a season of life like no other art form can.
Jon Foreman
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Jon Foreman
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: October 22
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San Bernardino County
California
Jonathan Mark Foreman
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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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Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love another.
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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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As far as when I'm writing a song, I think I'm writing first and foremost for myself.
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