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Challenges ONLY make you STRONGER!!!

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Jon Gordon
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: January 20
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I'm reaching a certain level [at school] that I had been aspiring to with all these incredibly advanced classical peers around me that I had been trying to be able to hang with them a little bit.
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Another classical music teacher from Performing Arts that I've stayed in contact with is Jonathan Strasser.
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The Monk competition did open some doors. And I was thankful for that.
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We [with my mother] listened to music when I was a kid. We listened to a little bit of Bob's [Gordon] music, but just a little, I think it was too painful for her.
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Negative people often tend to create negative cultures whereas positive corporate cultures are created by positive people.
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Love is the answer for the team's success.
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Phil [Wood] was very passionate. Very committed. He felt very blessed that the people that cared about him and took him aside... if he was out of line or drinking too much, being too surly.
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You fuel your life with trust and love instead of fear and doubt.
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Love the process and you’ll love what the process produces.
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Letting people share their gifts and strengths is real love.
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Positivity is like a boomerang. The more we put it out there, the more it comes back to us.
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[Phil Wood] knew about wine. He knew about food. He knew about art. He knew about classical music. He was interested in things.
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We were poor [with my mother], and we didn't have too much. So we sat on the floor and we had a record player, and that's all we had in that room in the apartment. But we had whatever we had. Six records and a record player and it seemed like magic. Seven or eight years old, you know.
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I made some nice associations. Ben Perowsky and Kevin Hays... Bill Mobley and Pete McGuinness. A lot of talented people.
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I was studying with Joe Allard, which was great, as a saxophone student. Being able to study with Joe Allard was an incredible experience.
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We often have to lose what we thought we wanted to find what God wants for us
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I wasn't expecting [the Monk competition] would necessarily do that. So I just did what I did and some good things continued to happen and some doors continued to open and that kind of led me into the different associations that I developed in my 30s and some records that I've made on ArtistShare over the last 10 years or so.
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There's a lot of good people out here that want to help you grow and to help the music to continue to grow and evolve and go find those folks and be around them and carry it on... carrying the tradition on in the way with what it is that you have to offer. Find some good people in the music that will believe in you and they'll help you do that.
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I think we're in a time and place, the last 20 plus years, and certainly now, it's only more so, where it's just about us creating a body of work. Creating hopefully our own scene.
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You do [jazz] because you love it and hope many some others may as well. You do this because you need it.
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