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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.

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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If comparison is the thief of joy, then our culture is being robbed blind.
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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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If you're leaving your family behind, you better believe in what you're singing.
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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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Well, the funny thing is, you are never the same person that you were the day before.
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Anything worth doing in this world is incredibly difficult to do.
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Switchfoot is a surfing term… To switch your feet means to take a new stance facing the opposite direction. It's about change and movement, a different way of approaching life and music.
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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.
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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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I wanna be a part of the generation that throws out money, throws out time, throws out all that we are against something bigger than ourselves.
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That's what life is, a continual state of journey. You are a river passing downstream.
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I think that's the beauty of live music - creating from the destruction.
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