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American Mavericks: Michael Gordon

July 1, 2002

By Alan Baker

‘Being a maverick is being able to create something that everyone else acknowledges as being something that they haven’t heard before. Where people turn around and say, ”Wow, I haven’t heard that before,” or, ”That’s a new idea.” In a sense, you’ve created something or done something that’s entered the world and is new, which is an amazing thing to do.

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