Edith Piaf Quotes & Sayings

Death is the beginning of something. — Edith Piaf

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

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

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

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. — Edith Piaf

Love goes on a journey, like I do
One day I'll find it
By the time I see its face
I'll recognize it right away — Edith Piaf

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

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

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

I can die now. I've lived twice. — Edith Piaf

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

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

American journalist: If you were to give advice to a woman, what would it be?
Edith Piaf: Love.
American journalist: To a young girl?
Edith Piaf: Love.
American journalist: To a child?
Edith Piaf: Love. — Edith Piaf

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

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

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

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. — Edith Piaf

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

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. — Edith Piaf

You say things that make my eyes close and I find that marvelous. — Edith Piaf

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

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

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

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

I'm sure that I've already been dead. — Edith Piaf

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

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

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

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

Drugs are a carnival in hell. — Edith Piaf

I don't lie; I improve on my life. — Edith Piaf

All I've done all my life is disobey. — Edith Piaf

My conservatory is in the streets. My intelligence is instinct. — Edith Piaf

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

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

I don't want to die an old lady. — Edith Piaf

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

Death does not exist. — Edith Piaf