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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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Great leaders don't succeed because they are great. They succeed because they bring out the greatness in others.
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I was [ on Thelonious Monk International Saxophone Competition] with Ralph Bowen, and Joel Frahm, Jimmy Greene, John Ellis. You can't play the saxophone better than any of those guys play. So many of those things that those guys could do I wish I could do now, let alone then.
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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 was also sitting in from the middle of senior year of high school at Sweet Basil, it was a great club in New York.
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Pretty fortunate that with the exception of two months when I was 23, that I worked in a law office pushing paper around. I was always able to eke out a living somehow. So I'm blessed.
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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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If you are complaining you can't be thinking about or creating what you do want.
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Love the process and you’ll love what the process produces.
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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.
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If you go with that spirit, good things will come for you. If you go into it with an assumption that you're a genius and that you're entitled to something, it's a little tougher.
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Your optimism today will determine your level of success tomorrow.
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You fuel your life with trust and love instead of fear and doubt.
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Challenges ONLY make you STRONGER!!!
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Instead of being disappointed about where you are, be optimistic about where you are going.
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I definitely had some moments, where, Wow, these were some hard chords on some gig.
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We had a great educator [in the school band], a man named Larry Laurenzano. He was tough, but we knew that he loved us. And that was the beginning of playing music with people and really being inspired and having fun and being in a community.
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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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There are a lot of people that impacted me. I remember hearing Oscar Peterson live at the Blue Note, which was very expensive, but... $50 in the '80s... hard to come up with. But it was amazing.
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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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When you experience resistance, you find the lessons that you are meant to learn
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