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
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.
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.
law giving people
Don't care what people say. Don't give a damn about their laws.
jesus thinking strange
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?
stars faults use
Use your faults, use your defects; then you're going to be a star.
dream morning night
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.
pay fool this-life
Every damn fool thing you do in this life you pay for.
couple lying mean
As far as I'm concerned, love means fighting, big fat lies, and a couple of slaps across the face.