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Edith Piaf Biography

Édith Piaf (French: [edit pjaf] ( listen); 19 December 1915 – 10 October 1963; nee Édith Giovanna Gassion) was a French singer, songwriter, cabaret performer and film actress noted as France's national chanteuse and one of the country's widely known international stars.

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

Cry, People, Understand, Want, Words

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

Book, People, Phones, Sing, Sound

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

Concerned, Couple, Face, Fighting, Lying, Mean

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.

Dream, Drunk, Hope, Hungry, Morning, Night

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

Bitter, Life, Love, Pay, Tears, Thinking

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

Awful, Dying, Old, Sickness, Thinking, Ugly

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

France, Nothing, People, Successful, Understand

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

Lose, Loses, Money

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

Americans, Beauties, Dumb, Girl, Think, Thinking

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

Elevator, Elevators, Reach, Remember, Should

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.

Day, Feelings, One Day, Sing, Song

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

Dove, Fly Away, Meet, Performer, Performers, Should

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

Earth, Escaping, Singing, World

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

Earn, Give Me, Giving, Knows, Money

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

Don'T Lie, I Don'T Lie, Improve, Lie, Life, Lying

All I've done all my life is disobey.

Disobey, Done, Life, Life Is

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

Coming, Coming Back, Death, Earth, Mind

For me, sleeping is a waste of time. I'm afraid to sleep. It's a form of death.

Death, Sleep, Time, Waste, Wasting Time

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

Coward, Having, Just One, Persons, See

To sing is to bring to life; impossible if the words are mediocre, however good the music.

Good, Ifs, Impossible, Life, Mediocre, Sing

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