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Connection to the music and the history was very powerful to me. I think that's what I feel the most blessed about.

Jon Gordon

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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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You can’t be a great leader if all you are serving is yourself.
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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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Bob [Gordon] died young tragically.
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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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I was commuting three to four hours a day, I had jobs for much of it. But I was always involved in going to some ensemble someplace. Taking my lessons at the local Jewish community center on Staten Island.
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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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Aesthetically, I love the whole history of the music.
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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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We had been thrown out of a couple of places that we had lived in when I was a kid and all the family photos and records and toys were long since gone. But I think somebody had given us a couple of records.
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