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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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Jon Gordon
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: January 20
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I'm reaching a certain level [at school] that I had been aspiring to with all these incredibly advanced classical peers around me that I had been trying to be able to hang with them a little bit.
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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 was commuting three to four hours a day, I had jobs for much of it. But I was always involved in going to some ensemble someplace. Taking my lessons at the local Jewish community center on Staten Island.
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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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I never really had a classical saxophone set-up. I just had a middle of the road set up.
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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 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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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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Being positive won’t guarantee you’ll succeed. But being negative will guarantee you won’t.
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I definitely had some moments, where, Wow, these were some hard chords on some gig.
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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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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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You need to work as hard to be a great teammate as you do to be a great player
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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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Don't waste your energy on those who don't get on your bus.
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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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Life and success are about what you choose to believe.
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When I was a kid, I always saw these pictures of a man called Bob Gordon with a baritone saxophone, who I understood was my father. Turns out he wasn't. He was my mother's first husband.
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Sometimes you think Okay, well I'm going to play my horn, and I'm going to study Charlie Bird Parker solos or [John Coltrain] or whatever. But as [Phil Wood] said to me, Man, Bird listened to everything.
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You fuel your life with trust and love instead of fear and doubt.
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