“I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.”
John Cage (1912–1992) American avant-garde composer
Quoted in Richard Kostelanetz (1988) Conversing with Cage
1980s
“People are always asking me if I'm frightened, hanging out with al Qaeda, but usually those encounters are one-on-one interviews. I'm talking to people whose views I don't agree with, but that happens all the time.”
[Barbara Hoffman, September 26, 2010, In my library … Lawrence Wright, New York Post, 32]
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