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Music will always be judged by our subjective ears.

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
Subjective
Judged
Ears
Music
Always

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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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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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Maybe truth is not something that I can possess. Maybe truth is something which possesses me.
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I'm not really one to be on camera, I'd rather be writing songs.
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We were meant to live for so much more.
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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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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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If you're leaving your family behind, you better believe in what you're singing.
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Hope is not a substitute for pain. Hope is in spite of pain.
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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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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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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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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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It’s a good thing my parents named me Jon because that’s what everyone calls me.
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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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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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Anything worth doing in this world is incredibly difficult to do.
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You wake up, you wake up, another day, you wake up, you wake up, traffic still moving at the same speed, our eyes looking at the same speed, our minds thinking at the same speed, I wanna see movement, I wanna see change. I wanna wake up for real. I wanna wake up. I wanna wake up. We were meant to live.
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I think surfing and music are both places of release and self expression where there are no rules, and you can find a different form of freedom that you can't anywhere else.
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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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