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If you are complaining you can't be thinking about or creating what you do want.

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Jon Gordon
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: January 20
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I definitely had some moments, where, Wow, these were some hard chords on some gig.
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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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Anyone who attempts to build great things will face challenges.
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Ernie Hayes, Jimmy Lewis, and either Belton Evans or Khalil Mahdi on drums [were in Sweet Basil]. All those guys really took care of me.
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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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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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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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Life and success are about what you choose to believe.
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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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Connection to the music and the history was very powerful to me. I think that's what I feel the most blessed about.
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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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The goal is not to be better than anyone else but rather be better than you were yesterday.
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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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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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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.
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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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Remember, you have only one ride through life so give it all you got and enjoy the ride.
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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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Pretty fortunate that with the exception of two months when I was 23, that I worked in a law office pushing paper around. I was always able to eke out a living somehow. So I'm blessed.
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