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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.
Jon Foreman
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Jon Foreman
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: October 22
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Singer-Songwriter
San Bernardino County
California
Jonathan Mark Foreman
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Music is admitted under the skin without permission.
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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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Why is it that everything is collapsing if gravity is pulling us together?
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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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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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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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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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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 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'm not really one to be on camera, I'd rather be writing songs.
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I began thinking about the idea of a 24 hour concert. What if you tied songs to certain hours of the day - creating a 24 hour world of lyric and melody. So that was the inspiration for this project.
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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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It was a beautiful letdown, the day I knew, that all the riches this world had to offer me, will never do.
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Don't be discouraged, but know that suffering produces perseverance, perseverance brings character, and character brings hope, and this is a hope which will not disappoint us.
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Live rather than talk. Talk is cheap and the tabloids scream about it every day.
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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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Information has become king, whereas wisdom should be king and there is a big difference between the two.
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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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