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When I'm happy, when I'm enjoying life, I'm home, I'm surfing, I'm spending time with my wife, my friends and I'm not thinking about the pain. And then the moment I encounter something that feels difficult, I feel like that's when, for me, I turn to writing and thinking and maybe a song comes from that.

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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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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I think that's the beauty of live music - creating from the destruction.
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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'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.
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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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Why is it that everything is collapsing if gravity is pulling us together?
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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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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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Anything worth doing in this world is incredibly difficult to do.
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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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I love the idea that you can create a world through song.
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If you're leaving your family behind, you better believe in what you're singing.
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What do we really want to say to the world? Three main themes. The inability to find completion in our modern society, the inability to find completion within ourselves, and the new way to be human in what Christ offers us - His love and His perfect plan of redemption for us.
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Life is a battlefield. I don't have enough time on the planet to play games.
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Hope is not a substitute for pain. Hope is in spite of pain.
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I simply want the music to to find its way to open-minded people.
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We were meant to live for so much more.
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For me, I want to create a environment for the songs to live in. So one song by itself only tells a piece of the story, but in the context of the album, more of the colors are revealed.
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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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Happiness is like peeing in your pants. Everyone can see it, but only you can feel the warmth.
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