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Portrait of Edith Piaf

Edith Piaf

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Édith Giovanna Gassion, known as Édith Piaf, was a French singer and lyricist. She is regarded as France's greatest popular singer and one of the most celebrated performers in the world.

Quick Facts About Edith Piaf

Notable works: Au bal de la chance

About Edith Piaf

Édith Giovanna Gassion, known as Édith Piaf, was a French singer and lyricist. She is regarded as France's greatest popular singer and one of the most celebrated performers in the world. She is best known for performing songs in the cabaret and modern chanson genres.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Edith Piaf

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

Coward

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

Bitter

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

Fool

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

Arms

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

Coming back

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Drugs are a carnival in hell.

Addiction

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I want to die young. I think it's awful to get old, and sickness is ugly.

Awful

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Use your faults, use your defects; then you're going to be a star.

Astronomy

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

Another world

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

Being successful

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

Another world

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My conservatory is in the streets. My intelligence is instinct.

Conservatory

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

Money

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All I've done all my life is disobey.

Done

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Death does not exist.

Death

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

Book

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

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I don't want to die an old lady.

Old lady

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“You say things that make my eyes close and I find that marvelous.”

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I don't lie; I improve on my life.

Don-t-lie

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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…

After

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Death is the beginning of something.

Birth

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

Curtains

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

Giving

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

Elevators

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