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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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Only through service and sacrifice can you become great.
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Alan [Ferber] is a great trombonist and composer. I'm thankful that I got some associations like that through peers and former students. That's kind of what it is.
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If I could have picked two guys on the planet, to have some exposure to at that age, those were the two right guys [Phil Woods and Charles McPherson].
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Remember, you have only one ride through life so give it all you got and enjoy the ride.
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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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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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Phil [Wood] was known for having a little bit of a gruff manner, but he was all heart.
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I was really falling in love with jazz and dedicating myself in that direction.
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Love the process and you’ll love what the process produces.
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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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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.
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I would sit in at a jazz brunch [at sweet Basil] with Eddie Chamblee, who was a great tenor player. Really a kind man. The whole band was great.
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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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Life and success are about what you choose to believe.
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Challenges ONLY make you STRONGER!!!
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I just lucked into a lot of good people man. In my life and through friends, and in the music, that really embraced me and took care of me. I'm a lucky guy.
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No challenge can stop you if you have the courage to keep moving forward in the face of your greatest fears and biggest challenges. Be courageous.
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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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You need to work as hard to be a great teammate as you do to be a great player
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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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