Remember, you have only one ride through life so give it all you got and enjoy the ride. — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
“Remember, life gives us warnings for a reason. Learn from this. Do things differently.” — Jon Gordon Life Copy Share Image
Enthusiasm attracts more passengers and energizes them during the ride. — Jon Gordon Enthusiasm Copy Share Image
Particularly, in my situation, I needed a way out of where I was. So music was that. — Jon Gordon Music Copy Share Image
All we can do is go about our work. But we can have a goal. We can have a dream. — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
Love the process and you’ll love what the process produces. — Jon Gordon Inspirational Copy Share Image
[Manhattan School Of Music] were kind of just getting the jazz program up and going when I first started there. I was… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
I went in [Sweet Basil band] and played with them, maybe half the gig for almost eight years or more. — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
[My mother] told me a little bit about the scene out there and I think, as a small child, I just always… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
I made some nice associations. Ben Perowsky and Kevin Hays... Bill Mobley and Pete McGuinness. A lot of talented people. — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
It's a complicated story [hoe I got into music ]. I actually wrote a book about it, titled For Sue. — Jon Gordon Book Copy Share Image
I just think that I associated music with something that was healing and transformative as a kid. — Jon Gordon Healing Copy Share Image
The first jazz cruise that I was on was '91. I played with Maria Schneider and John Fedchock's band. Got to meet… — Jon Gordon Amazing people Copy Share Image
“knowing how they want to be remembered helps them decide how to live today, and leaving a legacy will give them a… — Jon Gordon Leaving a legacy Copy Share Image
Everybody wants the quick fix, but it doesn't happen overnight. You have to be willing to put it out there. I call… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
I was [ on Thelonious Monk International Saxophone Competition] with Ralph Bowen, and Joel Frahm, Jimmy Greene, John Ellis. You can't play… — Jon Gordon Competition Copy Share Image
One time, I think it was my third lesson third or fourth lesson. Kim Parker and he picked me up at the… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
Now we also need people who just love to listen to the music. And we need people that want to work to… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
Benny Carter came up to me and said to me, "You know, in the whole history of the alto, I think Phil… — Jon Gordon Blessed Copy Share Image
There's a lot of good people out here that want to help you grow and to help the music to continue to… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
We had a great educator [in the school band], a man named Larry Laurenzano. He was tough, but we knew that he… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
Families that I lived with a little bit in junior high and quite a bit in high school and college. Just to… — Jon Gordon Art Copy Share Image
So often the difference between success and failure is belief. Belief leads to action and execution. — Jon Gordon Action Copy Share Image
Enthusiasm comes from the Greek word entheos, which means, "inspired" or "filled with the divine." — Jon Gordon Divine Copy Share Image
Everyone wants to do what the great ones do; but very few are willing to do what they did to become great — Jon Gordon Action Copy Share Image
There are a lot of different ways you can be a part of this music and love it and make a contribution… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
A guy like Scott [Robinson] plays the whole history of music on every instrument you've ever heard of. He's just kind of… — Jon Gordon Genius Copy Share Image
I asked all through third, fourth and fifth grade, when they were asking kids to be in the band, to be in… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
Teaching has definitely become a big part of my life in the past ten plus years. As it often does for many… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
You do [jazz] because you love it and hope many some others may as well. You do this because you need it. — Jon Gordon Hope Copy Share Image
The streets weren't paved with gold and Rose petals [when I was young]. "Do I have a horn to sell this month… — Jon Gordon Gold Copy Share Image
I think that's important to remember - That we're blessed to even be able to attempt to do this [music]. — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
The secret to life and the greatest success strategy of all is to love all of it and fear none of it. — Jon Gordon Fear none Copy Share Image
I had a really nice association with Richie DeRosa, a great musician, a great drummer and composer and arranger. And I had… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
Another classical music teacher from Performing Arts that I've stayed in contact with is Jonathan Strasser. — Jon Gordon Art Copy Share Image
I took some comp for non-comp major classes with Giacomo Bracali and Ludmila Ulela, who was a really famous composition teacher. — Jon Gordon Class Copy Share Image
I was also sitting in from the middle of senior year of high school at Sweet Basil, it was a great club… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
Don't let negative people drain your energy. Focus on your positive energy and kill them with kindness. Energy vampires are no match… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
I have to say, music was always my self preservation survival technique. This sort of sacred space in my life and in… — Jon Gordon Mind Copy Share Image
![“[Manhattan School Of Music] were kind of just getting the jazz program up and going when I first started there. I was 17 in September of 1984 when I started there.” quote by Jon Gordon](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/6c2/jon-gordon-1655_firsts_manhattan-school-of-music-were-kind-of-j_2051074.png)
![“I went in [Sweet Basil band] and played with them, maybe half the gig for almost eight years or more.” quote by Jon Gordon](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/ec8/jon-gordon-1655_band_i-went-in-sweet-basil-band-and-played-wi_1506826.png)
![“[My mother] told me a little bit about the scene out there and I think, as a small child, I just always felt a connection to that history because my mother had described it to me.” quote by Jon Gordon](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/dd4/jon-gordon-1655_bits_my-mother-told-me-a-little-bit-about-the_2939919.png)
![“It's a complicated story [hoe I got into music ]. I actually wrote a book about it, titled For Sue.” quote by Jon Gordon](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/266/jon-gordon-1655_book_it-s-a-complicated-story-hoe-i-got-into_1810963.png)
![“I was [ on Thelonious Monk International Saxophone Competition] with Ralph Bowen, and Joel Frahm, Jimmy Greene, John Ellis. You can't play the saxophone better than any of those guys play. So many of those things that those guys could do I wish I could do now, let alone then.” quote by Jon Gordon](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/3bb/jon-gordon-1655_competition_i-was-on-thelonious-monk-international-s_843648.png)
![“One time, I think it was my third lesson third or fourth lesson. Kim Parker and he picked me up at the bus station. And she just said, "Phil [Wood] has been up all night. He's heartbroken. Bud Johnson died last night." And Bud Johnson, like Zoot [Sims] and Al [Cohn] had been mentors to him.” quote by Jon Gordon](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/f59/jon-gordon-1655_all-night_one-time-i-think-it-was-my-third-lesson_948959.jpg)
![“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.” quote by Jon Gordon](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/7dd/jon-gordon-1655_band_we-had-a-great-educator-in-the-school-ba_592776.png)
![“A guy like Scott [Robinson] plays the whole history of music on every instrument you've ever heard of. He's just kind of an unparalleled genius.” quote by Jon Gordon](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/901/jon-gordon-1655_genius_a-guy-like-scott-robinson-plays-the-whol_915968.png)
![“You do [jazz] because you love it and hope many some others may as well. You do this because you need it.” quote by Jon Gordon](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/289/jon-gordon-1655_hope_you-do-jazz-because-you-love-it-and-hope_1884919.png)
![“The streets weren't paved with gold and Rose petals [when I was young]. "Do I have a horn to sell this month to pay my rent, or what am I going to do?" It was what it was.” quote by Jon Gordon](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/15e/jon-gordon-1655_gold_the-streets-weren-t-paved-with-gold-and_1577277.png)
![“I think that's important to remember - That we're blessed to even be able to attempt to do this [music].” quote by Jon Gordon](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/29f/jon-gordon-1655_able_i-think-that-s-important-to-remember-tha_1307024.png)
