Edith Piaf Quotes


"To be successful in my native France, where people speak the same language and understand me, is nothing."
- Edith Piaf
(Related: People, Successful, France, Language, Nothing)

"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
(Related: Mind)

"Singing is a way of escaping. It's another world. I'm no longer on earth."
- Edith Piaf
(Related: Earth, Singing, World)

"People say that I could sing the phone book and make it sound good."
- Edith Piaf
(Related: People, Sound)

"Money? How did I lose it? I never did lose it. I just never knew where it went."
- Edith Piaf
(Related: Money)

"If God has allowed me to earn so much money, it is because He knows I give it all away."
- Edith Piaf
(Related: God, Money)

"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
(Related: Family, Living, Thinking)

"I'd like to see one person - just one - who would own up to having been a coward."
- Edith Piaf
"I think you have to pay for love with bitter tears."
- Edith Piaf
(Related: Love, Tears)

"Don't care what people say. Don't give a damn about their laws."
- Edith Piaf
(Related: People, Care, Laws)

"Death is the beginning of something."
- Edith Piaf
(Related: Death, Beginning)

"Death does not exist."
- Edith Piaf
(Related: Death)

"As far as I'm concerned, love means fighting, big fat lies, and a couple of slaps across the face."
- Edith Piaf
(Related: Love, Fighting, Lies)

"All I've done all my life is disobey."
- Edith Piaf
(Related: Life)

"I don't want to die an old lady."
- Edith Piaf
(Related: Lady, Old, Want)

"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
(Related: Day, Feeling, Song)

"I want to make people cry even when they don't understand my words."
- Edith Piaf
(Related: People, Want, Words)