Edith Piaf Quotes

"Singing is a way of escaping. It's 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."

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

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

"Death is the beginning of something."

"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."

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

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

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

"All I've done all my life is disobey."

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

"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'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."

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

"Death does not exist."

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

"I don't want to die an old lady."

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

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

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