“What elevates one and not another to the level of genius is not only talent and ambition and luck, but a gift for turning everything to the purpose. ... Perhaps that is a common element in the story of genius:… — Jan Swafford Copy Share Image
“Without suffering there is no struggle, without struggle no victory, without victory no crown." Maria van Beethoven (Beethoven's mom)” — Jan Swafford Copy Share Image
“Perhaps an eternal law of art is that, for everything discovered, something of value is forgotten.” — Jan Swafford Copy Share Image
“Part of what Brahms and others could never quite get over was that Bruckner the composer of epic symphonies behaved, much of the time,… — Jan Swafford Copy Share Image
“In its dream of the triumph of reason and science, the Enlightenment of the eighteenth century failed in its hope of sweeping away old… — Jan Swafford Copy Share Image
“What elevates one and not another to the level of genius is not only talent and ambition and luck, but a gift for turning… — Jan Swafford Copy Share Image
