Edith Piaf
Edith Piaf
Édith Piaf; 19 December 1915 – 10 October 1963; born Édith Giovanna Gassion) was a French cabaret singer, songwriter and actress who became widely regarded as France's national chanteuse, as well as being one of France's greatest international stars...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPop Singer
Date of Birth19 December 1915
CityParis, France
CountryFrance
Edith Piaf quotes about
believe santa stills
I'm the only one who still believes in Santa Claus!
life thinking tears
I think you have to pay for love with bitter tears.
escaping singing world
Singing is a way of escaping. It's another world. I'm no longer on earth.
girl thinking dumb
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
love glasses rose
When he takes me in his arms, and speaks to me softly, I see the world through rose-colored glasses.
thinking dying ugly
I want to die young. I think it's awful to get old, and sickness is ugly ...
coward persons just-one
I'd like to see one person - just one - who would own up to having been a coward.
book phones people
People say that I could sing the phone book and make it sound good.
money giving give-me
If God has allowed me to earn so much money, it is because He knows I give it all away.
done life-is
All I've done all my life is disobey.
fly-away dove curtains
Performers and their public should never meet. Once the curtain comes down, the performer should fly away like a magician's dove.
last-words i-can dies
I can die now. I've lived twice.
instinct streets conservatory
My conservatory is in the streets. My intelligence is instinct.
song children eye
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.