Latest Jon Foreman Quotes from Interviews

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• I think sunrises are rarer for me, but sunset is my favourite time of day.

  Jon Foreman

  Sunset, Thinking, Sunrise

  Source: www.scenepointblank.com

• My best sunsets are always going to be in my home town, San Diego. Watching the sunset from the Pacific knowing that you're sleeping in your own bed, there's something special about that.

  Jon Foreman

  Home, Sunset, Sleep

  Source: www.scenepointblank.com

• I've experienced more sunrises with my bandmates and friends out on the road than with my wife, because we're always up at these strange times in the mornings trying to catch a plane.

  Jon Foreman

  Morning, Wife, Sunrise

  Source: www.scenepointblank.com

• 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.

  Jon Foreman

  Different, News, Stories

  Source: www.scenepointblank.com

• 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

  Song, Facts, Music Is

  Source: www.scenepointblank.com

• That's what life is, a continual state of journey. You are a river passing downstream.

  Jon Foreman

  Journey, Rivers, Life Is

  Source: www.scenepointblank.com

• 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.

  Jon Foreman

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.scenepointblank.com

• I've never really had a desk job, but I've died one day at a time all over the place.

  Jon Foreman

  Jobs, One Day At A Time, Desks

  Source: www.scenepointblank.com

• I'm not really one to be on camera, I'd rather be writing songs.

  Jon Foreman

  Song, Writing, Cameras

  Source: www.scenepointblank.com

• I love the idea that you can create a world through song.

  Jon Foreman

  Song, Ideas, World

  Source: www.scenepointblank.com

• 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.

  Jon Foreman

  Song, Writing, Sound

  Source: www.scenepointblank.com

• 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

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.scenepointblank.com

• 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

  Song, Pain, Home

  Source: www.songfacts.com

• 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.

  Jon Foreman

  Acting, Horrible, Ability

  Source: www.songfacts.com

• I love a good pop song. I have no problem with the concept of doing that sort of thing. For me, it's usually what I'm inspired by, what I'm thinking about.

  Jon Foreman

  Song, Thinking, Inspired

  Source: www.songfacts.com

• 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.

  Jon Foreman

  Song, Talking, Ideas

  Source: www.songfacts.com

• 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.

  Jon Foreman

  Song, Mean, Littles

  Source: www.songfacts.com

• 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.

  Jon Foreman

  Song, Voice, Crafts

  Source: www.songfacts.com

• 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.

  Jon Foreman

  Song, Thinking, Littles

  Source: www.songfacts.com

• 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.

  Jon Foreman

  Faces, Bittersweet, Kind

  Source: www.songfacts.com

• I'm always looking to find order within the chaos. And sometimes when my life gets fairly chaotic, I'll take a walk outside. I think about the order and the perfection of galaxies of planets in orbit and traveling around space and thinking how chaotic the wars and divorces and riots on our planet must look from outer space.

  Jon Foreman

  War, Divorce, Thinking

  Source: www.songfacts.com

• 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.

  Jon Foreman

  Beautiful, Song, Block

• 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.

  Jon Foreman

  Phones, Idols, Definitions

• 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.

  Jon Foreman

  Running, Mean, Years

• I simply want the music to to find its way to open-minded people.

  Jon Foreman

  People, Want, Way

  Source: blog.noisetrade.com