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Jon Gordon
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: January 20
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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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You fuel your life with trust and love instead of fear and doubt.
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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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I think we're in a time and place, the last 20 plus years, and certainly now, it's only more so, where it's just about us creating a body of work. Creating hopefully our own scene.
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A guy like Scott [Robinson] plays the whole history of music on every instrument you've ever heard of. He's just kind of an unparalleled genius.
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Love the process and you’ll love what the process produces.
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Instead of being disappointed about where you are, be optimistic about where you are going.
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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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Life and success are about what you choose to believe.
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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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All we can do is go about our work. But we can have a goal. We can have a dream.
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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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Being positive won’t guarantee you’ll succeed. But being negative will guarantee you won’t.
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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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Love is the answer for the team's success.
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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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Another classical music teacher from Performing Arts that I've stayed in contact with is Jonathan Strasser.
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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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We [with my mother] listened to music when I was a kid. We listened to a little bit of Bob's [Gordon] music, but just a little, I think it was too painful for her.
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I was really falling in love with jazz and dedicating myself in that direction.
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