Empowering Quote by Jon Gordon

Joe Henderson, who I maybe, to me, if I had to pick one improviser in my life that I saw live that blew my…

— Jon Gordon

Benny Carter came up to me and said to me, "You know, in the whole history of the alto, I think Phil is the…

— Jon Gordon

“know that I’m not a human being having a spiritual experience. I’m a spiritual being having a human experience.”

— 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 all the…

— Jon Gordon

The first jazz cruise that I was on was '91. I played with Maria Schneider and John Fedchock's band. Got to meet some amazing…

— Jon Gordon

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

— Jon Gordon

Every morning you have a choice. Are you going to be a positive thinker or a negative thinker? Positive thinking will energize you.

— Jon Gordon

I was occasionally getting calls for some things. But I would say, 22 to 29 was a lot of scuffling. Hoping to get called…

— Jon Gordon

Dust on gold doesn't change the nature of gold.

— Jon Gordon

There are a lot of people that impacted me. I remember hearing Oscar Peterson live at the Blue Note, which was very expensive, but...…

— 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 grow and…

— Jon Gordon

Ernie Hayes, Jimmy Lewis, and either Belton Evans or Khalil Mahdi on drums [were in Sweet Basil]. All those guys really took care of…

— Jon Gordon