Competition Quote by Jon Gordon

The Monk competition did open some doors. And I was thankful for that.

— Jon Gordon

I wasn't expecting [the Monk competition] would necessarily do that. So I just did what I did and some good things continued to happen…

— Jon Gordon

I was [ on Thelonious Monk International Saxophone Competition] with Ralph Bowen, and Joel Frahm, Jimmy Greene, John Ellis. You can't play the saxophone…

— Jon Gordon

I'm very gratified that I had my little 15 minutes,or whatever [at the Thelonious Monk International Saxophone Competition]. It certainly didn't make me rich…

— Jon Gordon

I'm just a former saxophone player who got lucky.

— Fred MacMurray

I was getting Monkees Monthly and there was a competition to draw a Monkee. I did a caricature of Micky Dolenz and won 10…

— Andy Partridge

I was able to go over [Saxophone Competition] and work a little more in Europe. I'm thankful that those of kinds of things. Simultaneously,…

— Jon Gordon

Saxophones are awesome.

— Samuel Ervin Beam

[Thelonious] Monk is a subject in itself. I mean, most piano players in most big bands sit down and they play with the band,…

— Ray Brown

At first I didn't understand what [Thelonious Monk] was doing, but I went back again, and what I can say about Monk is that…

— Randy Weston

That was the political reality of 1987: Saxophones made you cool. That's real! That really happened in our society!

— Christopher Miller

In the end, I didn't think I was good enough to use sax as a stage performer to get where I wanted, and thank…

— Engelbert Humperdinck