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Only through service and sacrifice can you become great.

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Jon Gordon
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: January 20
Businessperson
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Service
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I was occasionally getting calls for some things. But I would say, 22 to 29 was a lot of scuffling. Hoping to get called for bad wedding gigs and I did do an off-Broadway show for about 15 months.
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You fuel your life with trust and love instead of fear and doubt.
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You hear about the struggles with substances and all that, but [Phil Wood] was a really a great guy. This was a great man.
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Being positive won’t guarantee you’ll succeed. But being negative will guarantee you won’t.
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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 can’t be a great leader if all you are serving is yourself.
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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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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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The goal is not to be better than anyone else but rather be better than you were yesterday.
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I was [ on Thelonious Monk International Saxophone Competition] with Ralph Bowen, and Joel Frahm, Jimmy Greene, John Ellis. You can't play the saxophone better than any of those guys play. So many of those things that those guys could do I wish I could do now, let alone then.
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If I could have picked two guys on the planet, to have some exposure to at that age, those were the two right guys [Phil Woods and Charles McPherson].
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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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When [Charlie Parker] saw the young guys, especially the ones that were scuffling... Did you eat today? And if you hadn't eaten, he'd take you and buy you some lunch.
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Love the process and you’ll love what the process produces.
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It's very unlikely you're a genius, but, if you're ready to work at it hard and you want to listen to music all the time and you want to learn about it and you want to be around the people who do it, you'll find your own way.
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Aesthetically, I love the whole history of the 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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Larry [ Laurenzano] said to me one day near the end of junior high, Jon, are you Jewish? I said, No. And he said, Well neither am I. I'm not sure of Caesar DiMauro, but he teaches at the JCC and I got you a scholarship there.
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I definitely had some moments, where, Wow, these were some hard chords on some gig.
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Challenges ONLY make you STRONGER!!!
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