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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 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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Instead of being disappointed about where you are, be optimistic about where you are going.
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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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[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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You're not going to have any pension or health care from those $60 nights at you name the club. But I think you do this because you have to do it. You pursue any art form because you need it. Because you love it.
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[Manhattan School Of Music] didn't' have a jazz undergraduate program at the time so I played a semester in the big band. There was a graduate program. But I wasn't really that involved in jazz yet.
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Don't waste your energy on those who don't get on your bus.
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One time, I think it was my third lesson third or fourth lesson. Kim Parker and he picked me up at the bus station. And she just said, Phil [Wood] has been up all night. He's heartbroken. Bud Johnson died last night. And Bud Johnson, like Zoot [Sims] and Al [Cohn] had been mentors to him.
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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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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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