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Everyone wants to do what the great ones do but very few are willing to do what they did to become great
Jon Gordon
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Jon Gordon
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: January 20
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I had made a couple of records in Europe. One as a leader, and one as a sideman before that. It was what it was. I started to work with Maria Schneider around that period and some other people, I started to get called to sub at the Vanguard in my mid-20s.
Jon Gordon
When I heard Charlie Parker the first time on a record, it had seemed like an old, scratchy kind of record and I didn't get it.
Jon Gordon
If you are complaining you can't be thinking about or creating what you do want.
Jon Gordon
Connection to the music and the history was very powerful to me. I think that's what I feel the most blessed about.
Jon Gordon
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.
Jon Gordon
We listened [with my mother] to [Frank] Sinatra and Glen Campbell and we had some Beatles records that I liked. This was in the '70s.
Jon Gordon
Negative people often tend to create negative cultures whereas positive corporate cultures are created by positive people.
Jon Gordon
When you experience resistance, you find the lessons that you are meant to learn
Jon Gordon
I think that's important to remember - That we're blessed to even be able to attempt to do this [music].
Jon Gordon
Don't waste your energy on those who don't get on your bus.
Jon Gordon
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.
Jon Gordon
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.
Jon Gordon
[Phil Wood] knew about wine. He knew about food. He knew about art. He knew about classical music. He was interested in things.
Jon Gordon
I definitely had some moments, where, Wow, these were some hard chords on some gig.
Jon Gordon
We often have to lose what we thought we wanted to find what God wants for us
Jon Gordon
I was really falling in love with jazz and dedicating myself in that direction.
Jon Gordon
You can’t be a great leader if all you are serving is yourself.
Jon Gordon
Your optimism today will determine your level of success tomorrow.
Jon Gordon
Life and success are about what you choose to believe.
Jon Gordon
When I was 13, 14, 15, I had played in a couple of jazz ensembles. I didn't know anything about harmony, about II-V-I, though I had learned my scales with Caesar [DiMauro].
Jon Gordon
