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When you experience resistance, you find the lessons that you are meant to learn

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Jon Gordon
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: January 20
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I saw a nice interview with Dave Binney recently. He was saying, Man it was never easy. It's not like 'Oh wow, the good old days.' What, when certain people couldn't vote? There was more work for musicians in the '40s, '50s, '60s. But I don't think it was ever easy.
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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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Sometimes you think Okay, well I'm going to play my horn, and I'm going to study Charlie Bird Parker solos or [John Coltrain] or whatever. But as [Phil Wood] said to me, Man, Bird listened to everything.
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It's a complicated story [hoe I got into music ]. I actually wrote a book about it, titled For Sue.
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When you believe, the impossible becomes possible. What you believe will become what is true. Your optimism today will determine your level of success tomorrow. Don’t look at your challenges look up and look out into the future. Don’t focus on your circumstances. Focus on the right beliefs that will help you build your success.
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[Phil wood] put on some [Igor] Stravinsky and say to follow the score, tell me to play me the opening to the Rite of Spring. Or, I'm going to play you some 20th century obscure classical composer you don't know. Or, Let's listen to some Charles Ives, let's sight read some Bartok violin duets, etc.
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There are a lot of people that impacted me. I remember hearing Oscar Peterson live at the Blue Note, which was very expensive, but... $50 in the '80s... hard to come up with. But it was amazing.
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All we can do is go about our work. But we can have a goal. We can have a dream.
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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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Negative people often tend to create negative cultures whereas positive corporate cultures are created by positive people.
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Your optimism today will determine your level of success tomorrow.
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You can’t be a great leader if all you are serving is yourself.
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I just lucked into a lot of good people man. In my life and through friends, and in the music, that really embraced me and took care of me. I'm a lucky guy.
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I didn't always have time to practice as much as I wanted to do, that was a real problem for me in high school and college.
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The goal is not to be better than anyone else but rather be better than you were yesterday.
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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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Being positive won’t guarantee you’ll succeed. But being negative will guarantee you won’t.
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Every person and every team will be tested on their journey. It is part of the curriculum of life. It's just like riding a bicycle. In the beginning you're going to fall off and get knocked down but the important thing is to get back on, stay strong, and after a while once you master it you'll ride with the confidence of a champion.
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I think that's important to remember - That we're blessed to even be able to attempt to do this [music].
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Remember, you have only one ride through life so give it all you got and enjoy the ride.
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