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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.

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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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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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'm not really one to be on camera, I'd rather be writing songs.
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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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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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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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Life is a battlefield. I don't have enough time on the planet to play games.
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When our world falls apart and we have no more faces to wear - that’s when it’s beautiful, and that’s when we change.
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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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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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Inside all of us, we know the truth of life that there's something more than the next new cell phone or gadget or relationship and that our heart beats in time with the sunset.
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Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love another.
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That's what life is, a continual state of journey. You are a river passing downstream.
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There is a deeper portion of our being that we rarely allow others to see. Call it a soul maybe, this is the place that holds the most value. All else can drift but this. When this dies our body has no meaning.
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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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Music will always be judged by our subjective ears.
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We were meant to live for so much more.
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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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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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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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