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Aesthetically, I love the whole history of the music.

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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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I had a really nice association with Richie DeRosa, a great musician, a great drummer and composer and arranger. And I had a number of classes with him.
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When [Charlie Parker] saw the young guys, especially the ones that were scuffling... Did you eat today? And if you hadn't eaten, he'd take you and buy you some lunch.
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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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I didn't always have time to practice as much as I wanted to do, that was a real problem for me in high school and college.
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You do [jazz] because you love it and hope many some others may as well. You do this because you need it.
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[Phil Wood] knew about wine. He knew about food. He knew about art. He knew about classical music. He was interested in things.
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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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Life and success are about what you choose to believe.
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When you experience resistance, you find the lessons that you are meant to learn
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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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I was really falling in love with jazz and dedicating myself in that direction.
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The best legacy you could leave is not some building that is names after you or a piece of jewelry but rather a world that has been impacted and touched by your presence, your joy, and your positive actions.
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Anyone who attempts to build great things will face challenges.
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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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All we can do is go about our work. But we can have a goal. We can have a dream.
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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.
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Instead of being disappointed about where you are, be optimistic about where you are going.
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We listened [with my mother] to [Frank] Sinatra and Glen Campbell and we had some Beatles records that I liked. This was in the '70s.
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Positivity is like a boomerang. The more we put it out there, the more it comes back to us.
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