Edith piaf Quotes & Trivia

Quotes

All I've done all my life is disobey.

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

As soon as they leave, the French won't give a damn about your Wild West and your hot-dog vendors in Central Park.

Death does not exist.

Death is the beginning of something.

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

Don't wake me up unless Toto calls, in which case put him right through. I can't bear not hearing from him any longer.

Everyone sleeps like a log, so why in God's name can't I?

First number I have down pat, it'll go fine. Two, three, four and five are OK, so you don't have to worry about them. Number six I'm not sure of.

For me, singing is a way of escaping. It's another world. I'm no longer on earth.

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

I am stupid. I always told you I was. I hate myself, and I have no confidence in myself whatsoever.

I don't want to die an old lady.

I honestly have to have some rest. Th medicine I was taking for my rheumatism didn't help matters.

I kissed him for the first time the afternoon he arrived holding five colored balloons floating on the end of their little strings.

I need a long rest, I don't need sleep anymore and I'm really at the end of my nerves.

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

I want it understood that I don't want to touch a penny for that song, which I wrote in memory of Marcel.

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

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.

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

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

I'm going to learn how to write properly. I'll also be going to the dentist, and I plan to join a physical fitness course.

I'm not with anyone anymore. I cut off all relations, for I've made up my mind to become serious and work very hard.

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

I'm trying diplomatically to turn him out of my house, but it's not easy because it goes without saying that he's privy to certain things and doesn't hesitate to use them.

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'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?

If at the end of the song I move my arms as though I'm swimming, it's because when I sang it for the first time I wasn't very sure of the words, so I began to move my arms that way to cover it up.

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

If I weren't burning myself out, do you think I'd be able to sing?

In Miami I had to stop the show twice and couldn't go on, a case of overall fatigue.

It's high time I made amends to all the people I hurt through the years.

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

My aim is an international career.

My life when I was a kid might strike you as awful, but actually it was beautiful.

My secretary refuses to give me any money.

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

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

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.

Thank you for your kind applause. I've just finished my stint at the cabaret, and it's quite late.

The song is part and parcel of my basic repertoire. If you don't want me to sing it, you'll have to ban it.

There's something sinister about the house here.

Those hands of yours; they're worker's hands. They come from the people, and you have to make sure the people know it.

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

You'll see how much your little bird has changed.

You'll see, after I'm dead I'll come back and pinch your feet.

Your songs filled with sunshine, with wild girls, with passionate love, will take you a long way.

Your whole personality is in your nose.