Edith Piaf
I think you have to pay for love with bitter tears.Collection: Moving
If God has allowed me to earn so much money, it is because He knows I give it all away.Collection: Money
Death is the beginning of something.Collection: Death
Death does not exist.Collection: 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?Collection: Family
Singing is a way of escaping. It's another world. I'm no longer on earth.
People say that I could sing the phone book and make it sound good.
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.
Don't care what people say. Don't give a damn about their laws.
I wouldn't mind at all coming back to earth after my death.
To sing is to bring to life; impossible if the words are mediocre, however good the music.
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'd like to see one person - just one - who would own up to having been a coward.
I want to make people cry even when they don't understand my words.
I don't want to die an old lady.
All I've done all my life is disobey.
Money? How did I lose it? I never did lose it. I just never knew where it went.
To be successful in my native France, where people speak the same language and understand me, is nothing.
When you reach the top, you should remember to send the elevator back down for the others.Collection: Remember
Use your faults, use your defects; then you're going to be a star.Collection: Stars
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.Collection: Dream
Every damn fool thing you do in this life you pay for.Collection: Pay
My conservatory is in the streets. My intelligence is instinct.Collection: Instinct
When he takes me in his arms, and speaks to me softly, I see the world through rose-colored glasses.Collection: Love
I always thought my days spent in darkness [as a child she had cataracts and was unable to see for nearly four years] gave me a very special sensitivity. Much later, when I really wanted to hear, really 'see' a song, I'd close my eyes, and when I wanted to bring it out of the very depths of myself, out of my guts, out of my belly, when the song had to come from far away, I'd close my eyes.Collection: Song
I can die now. I've lived twice.Collection: Last Words
Performers and their public should never meet. Once the curtain comes down, the performer should fly away like a magician's dove.Collection: Fly Away
I don't lie; I improve on my life.Collection: Lying
I want to die young. I think it's awful to get old, and sickness is ugly.Collection: Thinking
For me, sleeping is a waste of time. I'm afraid to sleep. It's a form of death.Collection: Sleep
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 themCollection: Girl
Drugs are a carnival in hell.Collection: Addiction
Never acknowledge the limitations of man. Smash all boundaries! Deny whatever your eyes see. Die every moment, but say: "Death does not exist."Collection: Doe
I'm the only one who still believes in Santa Claus!Collection: Believe