60 Quotes by Edith Piaf

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

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

As far as I’m concerned, love means fighting, big fat lies, and a couple of slaps across the face.

I don’t lie; I improve on my life.

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

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.

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.

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

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