Edith Piaf Quotes

• Death is the beginning of something.

  Edith Piaf

  Topics in 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?

  Edith Piaf

  Topics in Family, Uncategorized

  Tags in Thinking, Jesus

• I’d like to see one person – just one – who would own up to having been a coward.

  Edith Piaf

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Like, Person

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

  Edith Piaf

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Concerned

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

  Edith Piaf

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self

• All I’ve done all my life is disobey.

  Edith Piaf

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Self

• Death does not exist.

  Edith Piaf

  Topics in Death

• I don’t want to die an old lady.

  Edith Piaf

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self

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

  Edith Piaf

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Concentration

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

  Edith Piaf

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People

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

  Edith Piaf

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Think

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

  Edith Piaf

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Feeling

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Singing

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

  Edith Piaf

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Singing

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

  Edith Piaf

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self

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

  Edith Piaf

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Successful

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

  Edith Piaf

  Topics in Money

Edith Piaf (18)

Birth:	19th December, 1915
Death:	11th October, 1963
Nationality:	French
Profession:	Singer

About

Edith Piaf was born in Belleville, Paris, France. She was a French cabaret singer, who became widely regarded as France's national chanteuse, as well as being one of France's greatest international stars. "La vie en rose", was written in 1945 and was voted a Grammy Hall of Fame Award in 1998. In April 1963, Piaf recorded her last song, "L'Homme de Berlin".

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