Quote

[Manhattan School Of Music] didn't' have a jazz undergraduate program at the time so I played a semester in the big band. There was a graduate program. But I wasn't really that involved in jazz yet.

Jon Gordon

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Jon Gordon
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: January 20
Businessperson
Consultant
Writer
School
Jazz
Music
Played
Really
Program
Time
Band
Semester
Involved
Undergraduate
Wasn
Graduate
Bigs
Manhattan
Didn
Graduates

More quotes by Jon Gordon

Image
If you are complaining you can't be thinking about or creating what you do want.
Jon Gordon
Image
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.
Jon Gordon
Image
We often have to lose what we thought we wanted to find what God wants for us
Jon Gordon
Image
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.
Jon Gordon
Image
I was really falling in love with jazz and dedicating myself in that direction.
Jon Gordon
Image
Positivity is like a boomerang. The more we put it out there, the more it comes back to us.
Jon Gordon
Image
All we can do is go about our work. But we can have a goal. We can have a dream.
Jon Gordon
Image
I definitely had some moments, where, Wow, these were some hard chords on some gig.
Jon Gordon
Image
When you experience resistance, you find the lessons that you are meant to learn
Jon Gordon
Image
A lot of musicians have said things to me like, Music saved my life. And I'm standing on the shoulders of dozens of people that you've never heard of that were like angels for me that came out of the woodwork. And that's really the case for me. I had so many people that did those kinds of things for me.
Jon Gordon
Image
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.
Jon Gordon
Image
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.
Jon Gordon
Image
[Phil wood] put on some [Igor] Stravinsky and say to follow the score, tell me to play me the opening to the Rite of Spring. Or, I'm going to play you some 20th century obscure classical composer you don't know. Or, Let's listen to some Charles Ives, let's sight read some Bartok violin duets, etc.
Jon Gordon
Image
Everyone wants to do what the great ones do but very few are willing to do what they did to become great
Jon Gordon
Image
Love is the answer for the team's success.
Jon Gordon
Image
Anyone who attempts to build great things will face challenges.
Jon Gordon
Image
[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.
Jon Gordon
Image
When I heard Charlie Parker the first time on a record, it had seemed like an old, scratchy kind of record and I didn't get it.
Jon Gordon
Image
You can’t be a great leader if all you are serving is yourself.
Jon Gordon
Image
Negative thoughts are the nails that build a prison of failure.
Jon Gordon