Schubert had arguably the same melodic gift as Mozart, but even less support. He didn't have the early exposure, never got to travel anywhere, and yet generated and amassed a body of work that grew and developed and is very profound.
Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.
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Mary Oliver
My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
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Jim Valvano
Buy a gift for a dog, and you'll be amazed at the way it will dance and swerve its tail, but if don't have anything to offer to it, it won't even recognize your arrival; such are the attributes of fake friends.
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Michael Bassey Johnson
A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect.
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Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.
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Creativity is an act of defiance.
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If art is the bridge between what you see in your mind and what the world sees, then skill is how you build that bridge.