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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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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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Every person and every team will be tested on their journey. It is part of the curriculum of life. It's just like riding a bicycle. In the beginning you're going to fall off and get knocked down but the important thing is to get back on, stay strong, and after a while once you master it you'll ride with the confidence of a champion.
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Instead of being disappointed about where you are, be optimistic about where you are going.
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You're not going to have any pension or health care from those $60 nights at you name the club. But I think you do this because you have to do it. You pursue any art form because you need it. Because you love it.
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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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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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Negative thoughts are the nails that build a prison of failure.
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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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Don't waste your energy on those who don't get on your bus.
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I was really falling in love with jazz and dedicating myself in that direction.
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[Manhattan School Of Music] were kind of just getting the jazz program up and going when I first started there. I was 17 in September of 1984 when I started there.
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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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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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I never really had a classical saxophone set-up. I just had a middle of the road set up.
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If you are complaining you can't be thinking about or creating what you do want.
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Challenges ONLY make you STRONGER!!!
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Love is the answer for the team's success.
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Joe Henderson with Ron Carter and Al Foster at the Vanguard was just wow. And the energy of the three of them.
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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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