Édith Piaf Quotes


Édith Piaf

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

Death is the beginning of something.

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

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

For me, singing is a way of escaping. It is another world. I`m no longer on earth.

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

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

All I`ve done all my life is disobey.

I wouldn`t mind at all coming back to earth after my death.

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?

I don`t want to die an old lady.

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

Don`t care what people say. Don`t give a damn about their laws.

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.

I want to make people cry even when they don`t understand my words.

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

You never know a guy till you`ve tried him in bed. You know more about a guy in one night in bed than you do in months of conversation. In the sack, they can`t cheat!

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

For me, singing is a way of escaping. It`s another world. I`m no longer on earth.

Death does not exist.

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.






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