Edith Piaf Quotes

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• As far as I'm concerned, love means fighting, big fat lies, and a couple of slaps across the face.
• Drugs are a carnival in hell.
• When he takes me in his arms, and speaks to me softly, I see the world through rose-colored glasses.
• Singing is a way of escaping. It's another world. I'm no longer on earth.
• Death is the beginning of something.
• I don't want to die an old lady.
• Don't care what people say. Don't give a damn about their laws.
• I wouldn't mind at all coming back to earth after my death.
• 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…
• 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…
• Every damn fool thing you do in this life you pay for.
• People say that I could sing the phone book and make it sound good.
• 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…
• All I've done all my life is disobey.
• Money? How did I lose it? I never did lose it. I just never knew where it went.
• To be successful in my native France, where people speak the same language and understand me, is nothing.
• To sing is to bring to life; impossible if the words are mediocre, however good the music.
• Death does not exist.
• I want to make people cry even when they don't understand my words.
• If God has allowed me to earn so much money, it is because He knows I give it all away.

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