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"She’s incredible. She’s a great singer and a great songwriter. Completely disregarded from what I can see. I mean, I don’t think she sells fifty records, but she’s I think one of the really original talents in the whole racket. When I first came to New York - I guess it was around 1966 - Nico was singing at the Dom, which was an Andy Warhol club at the time on 8th Street. I just stumbled in there one night and I didn’t know any of these people. I saw this girl singing behind the bar. She was a sight to behold. I suppose the most beautiful woman I’d ever seen up to that moment. I just walked up and stood in front of her until people pushed me aside. I started writing songs for her then. She introduced me to Lou Reed at that time. And Lou Reed surprised me greatly because he had a book of my poems. I hadn’t been published in America, and I had a very small audience even in Canada. So when Lou Reed asked me to sign Flowers for Hitler, I thought it was an extremely friendly gesture of his. The Velvet Underground had broken up at the time. He played me his songs. It was the first time I’d heard them. I thought they were excellent - really fine. I used to praise him."
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  Leonard Cohen



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