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Edith Piaf quotes

Ocupation: Singer

Life: December 19, 1915 - October 10, 1963

Birthday: December 19

Death: October 10

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

Topics: People, Want, Cry

quote when you reach the top you should remember to send the elevator back down for the others edith piaf Quotes

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

Topics: Couple, Lying, Mean

I was hungry. I was cold. But I was also free. Free not to get up in the morning, not to go to bed at night, free to get drunk if I liked, to dream... to hope.

Topics: Dream, Morning, Night

Every damn fool thing you do in this life you pay for.

Topics: Pay, Fool, This Life

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

Topics: Law, People, Giving

Use your faults, use your defects; then you're going to be a star.

Topics: Stars, Use, Faults

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?

Topics: Jesus, Thinking, Strange

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

Topics: Life, Thinking, Tears

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

Topics: Money, Giving, Saving Money, Earning Money

For me, sleeping is a waste of time. I'm afraid to sleep. It's a form of death.

Topics: Sleep, Waste, Wasting Time

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

Topics: Successful, People, France

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

All I've done all my life is disobey.

Topics: Done, Life Is

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

Topics: Book, Phones, People

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

Topics: Coward, Persons

My conservatory is in the streets. My intelligence is instinct.

Topics: Instinct, Streets, Conservatory

Drugs are a carnival in hell.

Topics: Addiction, Drug, Hell, Carnivals

When he takes me in his arms, and speaks to me softly, I see the world through rose-colored glasses.

Topics: Love, Glasses, Rose, Colored Glass, French Love

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

Topics: Escaping, Singing, World

Death is the beginning of something.

I don't want to die an old lady.

Topics: Want, Wanting To Die, Old Lady

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.

Topics: Song, Feelings, One Day

I always thought my days spent in darkness [as a child she had cataracts and was unable to see for nearly four years] gave me a very special sensitivity. Much later, when I really wanted to hear, really 'see' a song, I'd close my eyes, and when I wanted to bring it out of the very depths of myself, out of my guts, out of my belly, when the song had to come from far away, I'd close my eyes.

Topics: Song, Children, Eye

Performers and their public should never meet. Once the curtain comes down, the performer should fly away like a magician's dove.

Topics: Fly Away, Dove, Curtains

I don't lie; I improve on my life.

Topics: Lying, Don't Lie, I Don't Lie

I can die now. I've lived twice.

Topics: Last Words

I want to die young. I think it's awful to get old, and sickness is ugly ...

Topics: Thinking, Dying, Ugly, I Want To Die

Death does not exist.

Topics: Doe

To sing is to bring to life; impossible if the words are mediocre, however good the music.

Topics: Impossible, Mediocre

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

Topics: Mind, Earth, Coming Back

When you reach the top, you should remember to send the elevator back down for the others.

Topics: Remember, Elevators, Should, Top Of The World, Wise Women

Americans want beauties, not me. I’m not the Parisian bombshell they expected. Can you see me as a chorus girl? Where’s my feather up the ass? They think I’m sad, they’re dumb. I don’t connect to them

Topics: Girl, Thinking, Dumb, Bombshells, I'm Sad

I'm the only one who still believes in Santa Claus!

Topics: Believe In Santa

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