Top 100 Jon Foreman Quotes
#1. 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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#2. 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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#3. There's nothing that you can sell me that can make me happy.
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#4. 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.
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#5. 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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#6. If you're leaving your family behind, you better believe in what you're singing.
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#7. The kingdom of heaven is comprised of the broken, the fatherless, the poor, the starving. Nothing that could create good ratings for NBC.
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#8. 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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#9. Your faith is what you do daily, you can't separate your heart from your body and keep them both alive, they're almost the same thing.
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#10. We were meant to live for so much more,
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#11. If we truly believe in an all-powerful God, then there's going to be beauty and truth to be found in all sorts of different places.
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#12. Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love another.
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#14. 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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#15. Music has always been a location for me to run to, whether it's through someone else's song or my own. I can observe my own planet from this foreign land and things make sense within the telescopic lens of song.
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#16. Experience is all I have. I equate song-writing with archeology. Every day you dig. You dig into different places within yourself - even finding places that you've rarely been. And buried within the soil is song.
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#17. For me, even if I'm not a fan of the band in general or maybe it's not the style of music I want to put on for my daughter and me when we're waking up in the morning, there's always something that I can learn from it. And I think those are the things that are surprising.
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#19. 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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#20. I love the idea that you can create a world through song.
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#21. It's a good thing my parents named me Jon because that's what everyone calls me.
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#22. 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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#23. Sometimes the things that hurt are worth the pain.
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#24. 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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#25. In my opinion, the best way of showing someone the best way to live life is by living it.
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#26. I think of myself as more of a lover rather than a fighter, but sometimes you have to fight for what you love.
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#27. There are tears that shine like a smile, sobbing like a sunrise for the truth.
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#28. 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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#29. When life hands you lemons, you make lemonade. But when life hands you hurricanes, you go surfing.
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#30. I have horrible acting ability. I can only be one thing and that's it. So for better, for worse, that's all I've got to offer is me. I've got nothing else.
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#31. Why is it that everything is collapsing if gravity is pulling us together?
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#32. I look around and I know there's a lot in the world that I want to see changed - and I want to be a part of something bigger than myself. I want to see things change, in myself as much as in the world around me.
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#33. For me, the good songs are the ones that come really naturally. There are certain songs that you rework and rewrite and the craft becomes very evident, but a lot of times those aren't my favorite songs. The favorite songs are the ones that I can't even hear my own voice in.
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#34. C.S. Lewis says that fiction is able to sneak past the watchful dragons of religion. It becomes more powerful to speak in poetry.
The song goes straight to the heart while the numbers
and the math of it will never be able to reach that.
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#35. 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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#36. I simply want the music to to find its way to open-minded people.
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#37. 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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#38. 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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#39. The life, when we're aware of beauty, is kind of a bittersweet thing, it's a transient reminder of eternal beauty, which someday we will be face to face with.
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#40. Faith, hope, and love remain. But the greatest of these is love.
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#41. Live rather than talk. Talk is cheap and the tabloids scream about it every day.
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#42. The biggest thing that I've learned is to run the marathon, not the sprint. By that I mean, don't let the little problems that you face in the hour in daily life cast a shadow over the larger joys that you have, over the course of the years.
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#43. Maybe truth is not something that I can possess. Maybe truth is something which possesses me.
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#44. 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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#45. All music is worship. It just depends on what you're worshipping.
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#46. Grace? Undeserved kindness? Blessings? Whatever we call it, I'm pretty sure we get doses of luck more than we'll ever know.
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#47. My dying planet needs to see what the body of Christ looks like.
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#48. 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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#49. I do have an obligation, however, a debt that cannot be settled by my lyrical decisions. My life will be judged by my obedience, not my ability to confine my lyrics to this box or that.
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#50. The song can be a little bit more of the mystery and leave the whole thing open ended. But there's something really gratifying about saying exactly what you mean.
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#51. 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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#52. 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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#53. I've got a variety of different sources of news that I follow and every day there's going to be different headlines, different stories spun different ways and different sources that they're going to cite as their facts.
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#54. 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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#55. Anything worth doing in this world is incredibly difficult to do.
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#56. Music will always be judged by our subjective ears.
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#57. Our world spins upside down and sometimes we have to lose our grip on the things we value in this life in order to grab on to true life.
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#58. 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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#59. 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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#60. It's a great thing to see the strength of simplicity.
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#61. Well, the funny thing is, you are never the same person that you were the day before.
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#62. 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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#63. The tendency in today's culture is to want to be a 'star', but I want to be a servant.
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#64. Think deeply about life, it's worth it!
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#65. Usually for me, the melodic structures come out in the water and the lyrical ideas could come from a book I'm reading.
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#66. The unasked questions are the most dangerous to answer.
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#67. 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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#68. I'm really only responsible to make sure that one person is clapping at the end of my life. Because I feel like as a performer, a lot of times you live for everyone else's applause. That's a dangerous thing within the church or outside the church.
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#69. From the shore, the ocean is forever. It's a beautiful, dangerous place. Music is tied to the sea, born from the struggle, looking for hope. Because hope belongs in the dark places.
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#70. 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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#71. 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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#72. I don't think we can solve the outside problems
until we solve the ones within.
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#73. There's a time to be silent - to build up a reason to sing again.
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#74. Life tears at us and scars us as children so we adopt facades and masks to hide this part of us, to keep this sacred part of ourselves from the pain.
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#75. 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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#76. I'm not really one to be on camera, I'd rather be writing songs.
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#77. I used to think that great art happened without argument, and maybe that's not the case. Maybe the things that are most important in this life, you have to fight for.
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#78. I try to surf everyday or at least go for a walk on the beach if the waves are flat. The more I travel, the more I appreciate where I live and the ocean.
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#79. Inside all of us, we know the truth of life that there's something more than the next new cell phone or gadget or relationship and that our heart beats in time with the sunset.
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#80. Surfing and music were incredible outlets for me when I was a kid. And there are some really tricky times when you're growing up and it's easy to make a wrong decision, even with a good family and community around you. Surfing and music kept me out of trouble.
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#81. Music is admitted under the skin without permission.
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#82. My challenge is, do not run away from the hard questions. Truly ask yourself what's worth living for in this life.
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#83. The beauty of what I read in the gospel is the intimacy of what we're called to, that there's no middle man.
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#84. Celebrity is a currency with an exchange rate almost as strong as anonymity.
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#85. 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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#86. I'm very reluctant to put my words into God's mouth.
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#87. 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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#88. If comparison is the thief of joy, then our culture is being robbed blind.
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#89. That's what life is, a continual state of journey. You are a river passing downstream.
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#90. Eventually everything fails me, but when I look at the sunset or the sky, I'm reminded what it's like to be alive.
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#91. Pain is a common emotion in many of my songs mainly because I often don't know other ways to express it adequately. In my songs I wrestle with the things that I don't understand.
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#92. Happiness is like peeing in your pants. Everyone can see it, but only you can feel the warmth.
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#93. 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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#94. 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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#95. I think sunrises are rarer for me, but sunset is my favourite time of day.
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#96. Hope is not a substitute for pain. Hope is inspite of pain.
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#97. I think that's the beauty of live music - creating from the destruction.
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#98. I'm not so sure that home is a place you can still get to by train.
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#99. I often use music as a handle for very emotionally explosive substances: love, sex, God, fear, doubt, politics, the economics of the soul - these are daunting thoughts in the back of my mind that I rarely visit without the safety gloves of song.
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#100. Nothing stays together without a fight.
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