John cage on marcel duchamp: An interview

When did you first meet Marcel Duchamp? I met hirn in the early forties. But I didn't know hirn except to see hirn now and then. I didn't want to bother hirn with rny friendship. Then, towards the end of the forties, I wrote the rnusic for his sequence in Dreams That Money Can Buy.l Afterwards Iran into hirn on MacDougal Street. He had heard the rnusic and liked it. Then I met hirn later when he was with Mary Reynolds.2 The conversation turned toward dope. Sorneone in the group asked whether he thought that dope was a future problem. He said he didn't think so; it would never be any more serious than the drinking ofliqueurs. Marcel took very little alcohol or food; he would sirnply eat what was given hirn. No one gave hirn a lot because everyone knew he didn't eat very rnuch-two or three peas and one bit of meat. But he did smoke cigars.