Edith Piaf

French singer (1915-1963)

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. 1.

    Death is the beginning of something.

    Edith Piaf

    French singer (1915-1963)

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    I want to make people cry even when they don’t understand my words.

    Edith Piaf

    French singer (1915-1963)

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    All I’ve done all my life is disobey.

    Edith Piaf

    French singer (1915-1963)

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    I’d like to see one person – just one – who would own up to having been a coward.

    Edith Piaf

    French singer (1915-1963)

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    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 Piaf

    French singer (1915-1963)

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    Money? How did I lose it? I never did lose it. I just never knew where it went.

    Edith Piaf

    French singer (1915-1963)

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    As far as I’m concerned, love means fighting, big fat lies, and a couple of slaps across the face.

    Edith Piaf

    French singer (1915-1963)

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    I don’t want to die an old lady.

    Edith Piaf

    French singer (1915-1963)

  9. 9.

    Death does not exist.

    Edith Piaf

    French singer (1915-1963)

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    I wouldn’t mind at all coming back to earth after my death.

    Edith Piaf

    French singer (1915-1963)

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    People say that I could sing the phone book and make it sound good.

    Edith Piaf

    French singer (1915-1963)

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    I think you have to pay for love with bitter tears.

    Edith Piaf

    French singer (1915-1963)

  13. 13.

    To be successful in my native France, where people speak the same language and understand me, is nothing.

    Edith Piaf

    French singer (1915-1963)

  14. 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 Piaf

    French singer (1915-1963)

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    Don’t care what people say. Don’t give a damn about their laws.

    Edith Piaf

    French singer (1915-1963)

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    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 Piaf

    French singer (1915-1963)

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    Singing is a way of escaping. It’s another world. I’m no longer on earth.

    Edith Piaf

    French singer (1915-1963)

  18. 18.

    If God has allowed me to earn so much money, it is because He knows I give it all away.

    Edith Piaf

    French singer (1915-1963)