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Anyone who attempts to build great things will face challenges.

Jon Gordon

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Jon Gordon
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: January 20
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We had been thrown out of a couple of places that we had lived in when I was a kid and all the family photos and records and toys were long since gone. But I think somebody had given us a couple of records.
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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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Great leaders don't succeed because they are great. They succeed because they bring out the greatness in others.
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I think that's important to remember - That we're blessed to even be able to attempt to do this [music].
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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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When you experience resistance, you find the lessons that you are meant to learn
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We had a great educator [in the school band], a man named Larry Laurenzano. He was tough, but we knew that he loved us. And that was the beginning of playing music with people and really being inspired and having fun and being in a community.
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Many of the people I'm gratified to see have gotten acclaim like Mark Turner or Bill Charlap. Ed Simon or Maria Schneider or Jim McNeely or Scott Robinson. Ken Peplowski, who is a friend and somebody I admire a lot.
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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 feel very similarly. I didn't have necessarily the same exact kind of dynamic, but that means a lot when people are like that with you. Especially people like that. And I think [Phil Wood] felt a certain responsibility .
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Negative people often tend to create negative cultures whereas positive corporate cultures are created by positive people.
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Walk down Forest Ave to Joey's Pizza like we used to do after performances, which doesn't exist anymore. We had a sense of community [in the school band].
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Only through service and sacrifice can you become great.
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I was also sitting in from the middle of senior year of high school at Sweet Basil, it was a great club in New York.
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I never really had a classical saxophone set-up. I just had a middle of the road set up.
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I made some nice associations. Ben Perowsky and Kevin Hays... Bill Mobley and Pete McGuinness. A lot of talented people.
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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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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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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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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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