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Nico
- actor
- model
- singer
- composer
- film actor
- experimental musician
- musician
- Born 1938-10-16
- Died 1988-07-18 (aged 49)
- Nationality Germany
- Years active 1954–1988
Biography
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Filmography
See full filmography| Role | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | Movie | 22 |
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1938 age 0
Born1960 age 22
CreditLa Dolce Vita1988 age 49
Died
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Family and influences
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Quotes
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 would be a communist if it was more anarchist. Otherwise, I see only everything as an absurdity, so I can laugh and cry. I have lived in a continuation, from birth and growing towards death in a chain that cannot end. I don't see this decade then that decade. The same things happen in different guises. I am bohemian but at one time you would call me a hippie or a punk. I remain a bohemian whatever you call me. So maybe I am locked in the fifties. But I have never desired to grow up from my world as a child, which is when things are most clear and utopian. They are clear because you are at the center and you see all around you. When you get older you lose your sight … I lost something of my childishness when people around me start dying. Four of my family died within a year.
Nico, CC BY-SA 4.0
I have a habit of leaving places at the wrong time, just when something big may have happened for me.
Nico, CC BY-SA 4.0
You could say it like was like a fairy tale at the time; Andy would be the good fairy, and Jim would play the giant, Brian would be the witch, Paul McCartney would be the frog who turns into a prince, no, it would have to be the other way round. Well, it didn't seem like a fairy tale at the time. It was a lot of hassle. But I learned a lot of things, and I began to compose my own songs.
Nico, CC BY-SA 4.0
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. We were the same height and the same age, almost … He was well read and he introduced me to William Blake and also the English Romantic poets who came after him. Jim liked Shelley. I preferred Coleridge. In fact, he is my favoured poet of all time. Did you know they were all drug addicts? Coleridge was addicted to opium. It is better to be addicted to opium than to be addicted to money.
Nico, CC BY-SA 4.0
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 want to throw stones at the whole world.
Nico, CC BY-SA 4.0
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.
Nico, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Personal details
- Nationalities
- Germany
- Cause of death
- bicycle accident
- Languages
- German, English, French, Spanish, Italian
- Years active
- 1954–1988
- Instruments
- Indian harmonium, tambori, voice
- Voice type
- contralto
- Record labels
- Verve Records, Beggars Banquet Records, Elektra, Island Records
- Genres
- rock music
- Education
- Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute