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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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Jon Gordon
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: January 20
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Phil [Wood] was known for having a little bit of a gruff manner, but he was all heart.
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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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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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The best legacy you could leave is not some building that is names after you or a piece of jewelry but rather a world that has been impacted and touched by your presence, your joy, and your positive actions.
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Life and success are about what you choose to believe.
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I definitely had some moments, where, Wow, these were some hard chords on some gig.
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When you fuel up with purpose you find the excitement in the mundane, the passion in the everyday, the extraordinary in the ordinary.
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If you are complaining you can't be thinking about or creating what you do want.
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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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Hearing Phil [wood] a lot, those few years especially when I was going to hear music and Tom Harrell was in the band. Man that was incredible. Hearing Tom at that period, and hearing Phil in that period, and also [Charles] McPherson. Those three guys were very impactful. Very inspiring to me at the time.
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Don't waste your energy on those who don't get on your bus.
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I had pestered [Phil Wood] for a long time. He finally agreed to do it. And I was excited and nervous and he couldn't have been nicer or more supportive from the minute I got to his house.
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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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I took some comp for non-comp major classes with Giacomo Bracali and Ludmila Ulela, who was a really famous composition teacher.
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Love the process and you’ll love what the process produces.
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You need to work as hard to be a great teammate as you do to be a great player
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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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[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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Everyone wants to do what the great ones do but very few are willing to do what they did to become great
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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.
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