Best 25 quotes of Edith Piaf on MyQuotes

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

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

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

Drugs are a carnival in hell.

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

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

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.

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

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

I don't want to die an old lady.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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