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I just lucked into a lot of good people man. In my life and through friends, and in the music, that really embraced me and took care of me. I'm a lucky guy.

Jon Gordon

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Jon Gordon
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: January 20
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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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[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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Don't waste your energy on those who don't get on your bus.
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The goal is not to be better than anyone else but rather be better than you were yesterday.
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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 had pestered [Phil Wood] for a long time. He finally agreed to do it. And I was excited and nervous and he couldn't have been nicer or more supportive from the minute I got to his house.
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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 definitely had some moments, where, Wow, these were some hard chords on some gig.
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I didn't always have time to practice as much as I wanted to do, that was a real problem for me in high school and college.
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Phil [Wood] said to me in the car going back, he said, Look man, you better know why you're playing this music. Because I've known too many who lived and died for it. And if you're not trying to change the world, I'm not interested.
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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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Remember, you have only one ride through life so give it all you got and enjoy the ride.
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We were poor [with my mother], and we didn't have too much. So we sat on the floor and we had a record player, and that's all we had in that room in the apartment. But we had whatever we had. Six records and a record player and it seemed like magic. Seven or eight years old, you know.
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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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When I was 13, 14, 15, I had played in a couple of jazz ensembles. I didn't know anything about harmony, about II-V-I, though I had learned my scales with Caesar [DiMauro].
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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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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 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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Negative thoughts are the nails that build a prison of failure.
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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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