Edith Piaf Quotes

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

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

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

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#4. 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?

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

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

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

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

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#9. 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.

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

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#11. All I've done all my life is disobey.

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#12. I'm sure that I've already been dead.

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#13. I don't want to die an old lady.

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

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#15. 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

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#16. 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.

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#17. Death is the beginning of something.

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

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#19. 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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#20. You say things that make my eyes close and I find that marvelous.

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

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#22. Death does not exist.

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

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

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

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

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

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#28. I can die now. I've lived twice.

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

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

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#31. 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.

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

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#33. 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.

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

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

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

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#37. Drugs are a carnival in hell.

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