Rory Cochrane
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Edith Giovanna Gassion (19 December 1915 – 10 October 1963), known as Edith Piaf (French pronunciation: [edit pjaf]), was a French entertainer best known for performing songs in the cabaret and modern chanson genres. She is widely regarded as France’s greatest popular singer and one of the most celebrated performers of the 20th century.
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About the Edith Piaf
Edith Giovanna Gassionwas published. She became France’s most popular entertainer in the late 1940s, also touring Europe, South America and the United States, where her popularity led to eight appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show.
Piaf continued to perform, including several series of concerts at the Paris Olympia music hall, until a few months before her death in 1963 at age 47. Her last song, “L’Homme de Berlin”, was recorded with her husband in April 1963. Since her death, several documentaries and films have been produced about Piaf’s life as a touchstone of French culture.
18 Quotes by Edith Piaf
- 1.
Death is the beginning of something.
Edith PiafFrench singer (1915-1963)
- 2.
I want to make people cry even when they don’t understand my words.
Edith PiafFrench singer (1915-1963)
- 3.
All I’ve done all my life is disobey.
Edith PiafFrench singer (1915-1963)
- 4.
I’d like to see one person – just one – who would own up to having been a coward.
Edith PiafFrench singer (1915-1963)
- 5.
I’ve always wanted to sing, just as I’ve always known that one day I would have my own niche in the annals of song. It was a feeling I had.
Edith PiafFrench singer (1915-1963)
- 6.
Money? How did I lose it? I never did lose it. I just never knew where it went.
Edith PiafFrench singer (1915-1963)
- 7.
As far as I’m concerned, love means fighting, big fat lies, and a couple of slaps across the face.
Edith PiafFrench singer (1915-1963)
- 8.
I don’t want to die an old lady.
Edith PiafFrench singer (1915-1963)
- 9.
Death does not exist.
Edith PiafFrench singer (1915-1963)
- 10.
I wouldn’t mind at all coming back to earth after my death.
Edith PiafFrench singer (1915-1963)
- 11.
People say that I could sing the phone book and make it sound good.
Edith PiafFrench singer (1915-1963)
- 12.
I think you have to pay for love with bitter tears.
Edith PiafFrench singer (1915-1963)
- 13.
To be successful in my native France, where people speak the same language and understand me, is nothing.
Edith PiafFrench singer (1915-1963)
- 14.
Tell me what you’d like to hear me sing. I’ll sing whatever you like, after which I’ll take up a collection, if you don’t mind.
Edith PiafFrench singer (1915-1963)
- 15.
Don’t care what people say. Don’t give a damn about their laws.
Edith PiafFrench singer (1915-1963)
- 16.
I’ve been thinking about Jesus. Don’t you find it a bit strange that, since He was living with His family and all, He up and left them just when they needed him most?
Edith PiafFrench singer (1915-1963)
- 17.
Singing is a way of escaping. It’s another world. I’m no longer on earth.
Edith PiafFrench singer (1915-1963)
- 18.
If God has allowed me to earn so much money, it is because He knows I give it all away.
Edith PiafFrench singer (1915-1963)