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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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Jon Gordon
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: January 20
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Phil [Wood] was very passionate. Very committed. He felt very blessed that the people that cared about him and took him aside... if he was out of line or drinking too much, being too surly.
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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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You do [jazz] because you love it and hope many some others may as well. You do this because you need it.
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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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[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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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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All we can do is go about our work. But we can have a goal. We can have a dream.
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You can’t be a great leader if all you are serving is yourself.
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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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When you believe, the impossible becomes possible. What you believe will become what is true. Your optimism today will determine your level of success tomorrow. Don’t look at your challenges look up and look out into the future. Don’t focus on your circumstances. Focus on the right beliefs that will help you build your success.
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Hearing Phil [wood] a lot, those few years especially when I was going to hear music and Tom Harrell was in the band. Man that was incredible. Hearing Tom at that period, and hearing Phil in that period, and also [Charles] McPherson. Those three guys were very impactful. Very inspiring to me at the time.
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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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When you experience resistance, you find the lessons that you are meant to learn
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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 definitely had some moments, where, Wow, these were some hard chords on some gig.
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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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Negative people often tend to create negative cultures whereas positive corporate cultures are created by positive people.
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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 studying with Joe Allard, which was great, as a saxophone student. Being able to study with Joe Allard was an incredible experience.
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