German singer and actress (1938–1988)
She was the icy blonde who sang on the Velvet Underground's first album because Warhol insisted, then spent two decades carving a path so dark and singular that "Chelsea Girl" sounds like pop by comparison.
Christa Päffgen modeled and acted through the early sixties, appearing in Fellini's La Dolce Vita in 1960 and Warhol's Chelsea Girls six years later. Warhol pushed her into the Velvet Underground for three songs on their 1967 debut; she released her own Chelsea Girl the same year, built from other people's compositions. Jim Morrison suggested she write her own material, so she picked up a harmonium and began. John Cale produced The Marble Index in 1968, then Desertshore in 1970 and The End... in 1974 — albums that left rock behind for something colder and more severe. Through the eighties she…
Sourced, dated quotes from Nico
Jim Morrison tells me that people are looking at the streets while I am looking at the moon. I do not feel connected enough [with the issues] to throw stones at a policeman.
I would say the time has not yet come. I rebel against the present, whenever it is, because I have not seen any change, other than oppositions grow stronger.
I have a habit of leaving places at the wrong time, just when something big may have happened for me.
I think he was the first man I met who was not afraid of me in some way. We were very similar, like brother and sister. Our spirits are similar.
I don't have a sense of time. Time is timeless to me, and I'm not in a hurry to get older. I mean, if I were worried about time, all the time, it would be terrible.
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