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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.
Jon Gordon
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Jon Gordon
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: January 20
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I saw a nice interview with Dave Binney recently. He was saying, Man it was never easy. It's not like 'Oh wow, the good old days.' What, when certain people couldn't vote? There was more work for musicians in the '40s, '50s, '60s. But I don't think it was ever easy.
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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 goal is not to be better than anyone else but rather be better than you were yesterday.
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The Monk competition did open some doors. And I was thankful for that.
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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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I think that's important to remember - That we're blessed to even be able to attempt to do this [music].
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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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You can’t be a great leader if all you are serving is yourself.
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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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Phil [Wood] said to me in the car going back, he said, Look man, you better know why you're playing this music. Because I've known too many who lived and died for it. And if you're not trying to change the world, I'm not interested.
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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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There are a lot of people that impacted me. I remember hearing Oscar Peterson live at the Blue Note, which was very expensive, but... $50 in the '80s... hard to come up with. But it was amazing.
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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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Being positive won’t guarantee you’ll succeed. But being negative will guarantee you won’t.
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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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Many of the people I'm gratified to see have gotten acclaim like Mark Turner or Bill Charlap. Ed Simon or Maria Schneider or Jim McNeely or Scott Robinson. Ken Peplowski, who is a friend and somebody I admire a lot.
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You fuel your life with trust and love instead of fear and doubt.
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Letting people share their gifts and strengths is real love.
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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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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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