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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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Jon Gordon
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: January 20
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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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Great leaders don't succeed because they are great. They succeed because they bring out the greatness in others.
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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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You can’t be a great leader if all you are serving is yourself.
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Every person and every team will be tested on their journey. It is part of the curriculum of life. It's just like riding a bicycle. In the beginning you're going to fall off and get knocked down but the important thing is to get back on, stay strong, and after a while once you master it you'll ride with the confidence of a champion.
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We [with my mother] listened to music when I was a kid. We listened to a little bit of Bob's [Gordon] music, but just a little, I think it was too painful for her.
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Instead of being disappointed about where you are, be optimistic about where you are going.
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I feel very similarly. I didn't have necessarily the same exact kind of dynamic, but that means a lot when people are like that with you. Especially people like that. And I think [Phil Wood] felt a certain responsibility .
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When you experience resistance, you find the lessons that you are meant to learn
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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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It's a complicated story [hoe I got into music ]. I actually wrote a book about it, titled For Sue.
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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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I learned some classical music history, which I had done quite a bit at of Performing Arts. But I got some more with a great teacher named David Noon, who I've been in contact with quite a bit in recent years.
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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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Remember, you have only one ride through life so give it all you got and enjoy the ride.
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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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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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Letting people share their gifts and strengths is real love.
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There were some things I was going and doing in Europe a little bit. Some festivals that brought me over. That was good. Some touring I did over there. But there was nothing major [from 22 to 29].
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Life and success are about what you choose to believe.
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