Jon Foreman Quotes About Writing
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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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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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I'm not really one to be on camera, I'd rather be writing songs.
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As far as when I'm writing a song, I think I'm writing first and foremost for myself.
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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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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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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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I like to write on airplanes... that forced meditation time when you have nothing else to do, so your mind is allowed to go to places it wouldn't otherwise go.
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Sometimes, the best songs are the ones you write without any pen and paper or audio recording device or guitar in your hands. Because there's nothing between you and the melody; it's just a great lyric.
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