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Instead of being disappointed about where you are, be optimistic about where you are going.

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Jon Gordon
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: January 20
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Earlier that year [1996], Ronnie Scott came to Visiones when I was playing with Maria and he hired me to come and play in his club in London, which I was gratified by. That allowed me to make some more connections.
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Phil [Wood] was very passionate. Very committed. He felt very blessed that the people that cared about him and took him aside... if he was out of line or drinking too much, being too surly.
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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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I think what frustrated me more than anything else in my formative years was that I just had to work. I had to have a job. Like twenty to thirty hours a week, a lot of times in high school and college. And that was hard.
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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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Life and success are about what you choose to believe.
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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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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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All we can do is go about our work. But we can have a goal. We can have a dream.
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You can’t be a great leader if all you are serving is yourself.
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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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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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I had a great year with Bob Mintzer [at Laguardia School of Arts]. Bob is great. We could have just brought the clarinet or dealt with classical stuff, or brought the flute or just dealt with comp and arranging... what a great teacher.
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I saw a nice interview with Dave Binney recently. He was saying, Man it was never easy. It's not like 'Oh wow, the good old days.' What, when certain people couldn't vote? There was more work for musicians in the '40s, '50s, '60s. But I don't think it was ever easy.
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Love is the answer for the team's success.
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When you experience resistance, you find the lessons that you are meant to learn
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Definitely I had a lot of times where I was really hard on myself. Really frustrated. But I never felt like I had someplace else to go. Just had to stay here and deal with this.
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Your optimism today will determine your level of success tomorrow.
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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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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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