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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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Jon Gordon
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: January 20
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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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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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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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I never really had a classical saxophone set-up. I just had a middle of the road set up.
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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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The more energy you spend worrying about the people who didn't get on your bus, the less you will have for the people who are on your bus. And if you are worrying about the people who didn't get on your bus you won't have the energy to keep on asking new people to get on.
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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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I never got to play with Art [ Blakey], but he was kind and spoke to me a number of times. He said, You know, the people who are working 40 hours a week. Those are the ones who are really paying dues. Sitting at a desk doing the same thing every day. We're really blessed to do what we do.
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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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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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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.
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You hear about the struggles with substances and all that, but [Phil Wood] was a really a great guy. This was a great man.
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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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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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It's very unlikely you're a genius, but, if you're ready to work at it hard and you want to listen to music all the time and you want to learn about it and you want to be around the people who do it, you'll find your own way.
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I definitely had some moments, where, Wow, these were some hard chords on some gig.
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Sometimes you think Okay, well I'm going to play my horn, and I'm going to study Charlie Bird Parker solos or [John Coltrain] or whatever. But as [Phil Wood] said to me, Man, Bird listened to everything.
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If you are complaining you can't be thinking about or creating what you do want.
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Negative thoughts are the nails that build a prison of failure.
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