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

My conservatory is in the streets. My intelligence is instinct. — Edith Piaf

Never acknowledge the limitations of man. Smash all boundaries! Deny whatever your eyes see. Die every moment, but say: ‘Death does not exist. — Edith Piaf

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

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

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

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

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

For me, sleeping is a waste of time. I’m afraid to sleep. It’s a form of death. — Edith Piaf

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

I want to die young. I think it’s awful to get old, and sickness is ugly. — Edith Piaf

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. — Edith Piaf

I wouldn’t mind at all coming back to earth after my death. — Edith Piaf

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

Death is the beginning of something. — Edith Piaf

Use your faults, use your defects; then you’re going to be a star. — Edith Piaf

Drugs are a carnival in hell. — Edith Piaf

I don’t want to die an old lady. — Edith Piaf

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

I don’t lie; I improve on my life. — Edith Piaf

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. — Édith Piaf

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

American journalist: If you were to give advice to a woman, what would it be? Edith Piaf: Love. American journalist: To a young girl? Edith Piaf: Love. American journalist: To a child? Edith Piaf: Love. — Édith Piaf

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

I can die now. I’ve lived twice. — Edith Piaf

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

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

I’m the only one who still believes in Santa Claus! — Edith Piaf

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

Don’t care what people say. Don’t give a damn about their laws. — Edith Piaf

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

All I’ve done all my life is disobey. — Edith Piaf

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

You say things that make my eyes close and I find that marvelous. — Édith Piaf

Death does not exist. — Edith Piaf