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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.

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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Hope is not a substitute for pain. Hope is in spite of pain.
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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.
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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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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'm not really one to be on camera, I'd rather be writing songs.
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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'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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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.
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There’s nothing that you can sell me that can make me happy.
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Why is it that everything is collapsing if gravity is pulling us together?
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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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The easiest thing to do is throw a rock. It's a lot harder to create a stained glass window. I used to get upset at the people who threw rocks but now I'd rather spend my time building the stained glass windows.
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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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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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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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Information has become king, whereas wisdom should be king and there is a big difference between the two.
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Paste just might be my favorite music magazine. They have shed light on many incredible, under-appreciated folks over the years, helping me find new tunes to accompany me through life. We were honored to give a song in return.
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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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Every day of your life, you change the world. Absolutely, yes, we're out to change the world. I mean, you change it whether you like it or not. You wake up and you talk to the grocer. You either kick your dog or you pet him. There's a million decisions you have every day where you change the world.
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I'm always thinking about songs, I'm thinking of life maybe a little bit more lyrically than a computer programmer or someone like that.
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