12 Quotes by Gordon Johnson

Many people like to make New Year's Eve an experience rather than marking it with a single event. The Mesa Symphony's annual New Year's Eve concert is always packed because it allows East Valley residents to start the celebration a little bit early.

Imagine you're standing in your yard with no clothes because your house burned down and a perfect stranger gives you food and clothing. It's what we do.

I feel like I'm in my 50s and I've learned to pace myself.

There's no reason in the world for him to do this.

The season is a celebration of the American spirit. When you are planning a season, there is always a certain atmosphere surrounding you. We were aware of this fervent patriotism, and we wanted to address that. But there are different approaches to patriotic music other than the Sousa marches. For instance, our first program will be 'New York, New York,' celebrating the spirit of that wonderful city.

Once we had a volunteer show up at class to teach volunteers to use an AED (automatic external defibrillator) and found a person on the floor in full cardiac arrest with an AED on the wall.

It really motivated me. I know it doesn't have to be that way if we are willing to take risks and make changes.

It's an extremely frustrating process appealing property taxes, ... I can identify with audit's findings.

They were real artists that worked on this thing, and I hope we can do it justice.