Edith Piaf Quotes

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.

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

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

Drugs are a carnival in hell.

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

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

I can die now. I’ve lived twice.

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

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

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

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

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