Piaf Quotes

#1. Whenever I hear Edith Piaf sing "Non, je ne regrette rien" - which is more often than I'd like, now that I'm at university - I can't help thinking, What the hell is she talking about? I regret pretty much everything.

David Nicholls

#2. I'll serve something black. Bean soup, licorice, coffee. It'll be very grim, I promise. We'll cover the mirrors. We'll listen to Piaf. We'll read passages from Dostoyevsky.

Stephanie Kallos

#3. Edith Piaf knocked my socks off when I was 8, but I didn't know what she was singing about.

Joni Mitchell

#4. I love to sing old Motown songs to myself, or some Patti Smith Edith Piaf or Billie Holiday. That gets me in the mood for singing.

Siobhan Fahey

#5. 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

#6. There has been a marvelous joyous carnival of mourning for Edith Piaf and Jean Coctaeau, and it was real! They died as they had lived, with style and grace and their proper eccentricity; and Paris loves anybody who can live anarchically and be delightful entertainment at the same time. So do I.

Katherine Anne Porter

#7. 'Piaf' I did it because I wanted to do more theater instead of only musicals, and someone gave me the book and said to me, 'You have to do it.'

Elena Roger

#8. I'll never approach a part in the same way again. Piaf taught me so much. In terms of my work, I think I'll enjoy it even more than before, because now I know that characters truly exist in their own right. I'll have a way to bring them even more intensely to life.

Marion Cotillard

#9. I had a role in 'Crossroads' when I was about 21, and then I went on to perform in 'Small Change' and then 'Piaf' in the Donmar Warehouse, London, and it was when I was there that some casting directors spotted me.

Luke Evans

#10. I want to move people the way Edith Piaf did.

Laura Branigan

#11. I listened to John Denver and Simon & Garfunkel. Edith Piaf was a huge favourite. Then I discovered musicals - I loved 'Les Miserables' - and, at about 14, I started listening to David Gray.

Gin Wigmore

#12. When I was very little, I was into Michael Jackson. At six or seven, it was Madonna, but she's not what she used to be. I've been into everything from Edith Piaf to Joe Strummer to the Velvet Underground to Suicide to A Tribe Called Quest to African music.

Lykke Li

#13. 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

#14. Drugs are a carnival in hell.

Edith Piaf

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

Edith Piaf

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

Edith Piaf

#17. Death does not exist.

Edith Piaf

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

Edith Piaf

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

Edith Piaf

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

Edith Piaf

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

Edith Piaf

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

Edith Piaf

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

Edith Piaf

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

Edith Piaf

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

Edith Piaf

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

Edith Piaf

#27. 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

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

Edith Piaf

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

Edith Piaf

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

Edith Piaf

#31. 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

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

Edith Piaf

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

Edith Piaf

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

Edith Piaf

#35. 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

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

Edith Piaf

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

Edith Piaf

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

Edith Piaf

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

Edith Piaf

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

Edith Piaf

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

Edith Piaf

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

Edith Piaf

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

Edith Piaf

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

Edith Piaf

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

Edith Piaf

#46. 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

#47. 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

#48. Death is the beginning of something.

Edith Piaf