Music Quotes by Jon Gordon

It's very unlikely you're a genius, but, if you're ready to work at it hard and you want to listen to music…

— Jon Gordon

I just lucked into a lot of good people man. In my life and through friends, and in the music, that really…

— Jon Gordon

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

Another classical music teacher from Performing Arts that I've stayed in contact with is Jonathan Strasser.

— Jon Gordon

Connection to the music and the history was very powerful to me. I think that's what I feel the most blessed about.

— Jon Gordon

We had a great educator [in the school band], a man named Larry Laurenzano. He was tough, but we knew that he…

— Jon Gordon

When we hear music that we love that changes the world for us, we might as well at least aspire to something…

— Jon Gordon

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

I just think that I associated music with something that was healing and transformative as a kid.

— Jon Gordon

Aesthetically, I love the whole history of the music.

— Jon Gordon

We [with my mother] listened to music when I was a kid. We listened to a little bit of Bob's [Gordon] music,…

— Jon Gordon

I think that's important to remember - That we're blessed to even be able to attempt to do this [music].

— Jon Gordon

Now we also need people who just love to listen to the music. And we need people that want to work to…

— Jon Gordon

Phil [Wood] said to me in the car going back, he said, "Look man, you better know why you're playing this music.…

— Jon Gordon

I didn't have time to deal with practicing in a way that I would have liked to. I wish I could have…

— Jon Gordon

I learned some classical music history, which I had done quite a bit at of Performing Arts. But I got some more…

— Jon Gordon

It's a complicated story [hoe I got into music ]. I actually wrote a book about it, titled For Sue.

— Jon Gordon

If you want to make [your own way in music] it as a player, which is very difficult, as Art Blakey said…

— Jon Gordon

Particularly, in my situation, I needed a way out of where I was. So music was that.

— Jon Gordon

When I got to Performing Arts, within the first week, a few days, Bill Charlap walked in and couldn't read music but…

— Jon Gordon

Hearing Phil [wood] a lot, those few years especially when I was going to hear music and Tom Harrell was in the…

— Jon Gordon

I had a really nice association with Richie DeRosa, a great musician, a great drummer and composer and arranger. And I had…

— Jon Gordon

I don't know that there was a moment, like one specific moment where I was like "Ugh. Now what do I do?"…

— Jon Gordon

I think [Phil Wood] didn't suffer fools gladly, but he loved supporting young people that loved the music.

— Jon Gordon

I heard these stories [about musicians from my mother] and somehow music, it was my understanding what my father had done. I…

— Jon Gordon