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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.
Jon Gordon
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Jon Gordon
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: January 20
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Challenges ONLY make you STRONGER!!!
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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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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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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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I had made a couple of records in Europe. One as a leader, and one as a sideman before that. It was what it was. I started to work with Maria Schneider around that period and some other people, I started to get called to sub at the Vanguard in my mid-20s.
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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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Your optimism today will determine your level of success tomorrow.
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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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There's a lot of good people out here that want to help you grow and to help the music to continue to grow and evolve and go find those folks and be around them and carry it on... carrying the tradition on in the way with what it is that you have to offer. Find some good people in the music that will believe in you and they'll help you do that.
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Don't waste your energy on those who don't get on your bus.
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Everyone wants to do what the great ones do but very few are willing to do what they did to become great
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Aesthetically, I love the whole history of the music.
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