Edith Piaf Quotes

 

Song  Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien 

 She touched my soul with this  and that happened to all…  

Non, rien de rien — No, nothing at all

Non, je ne regrette rien — No, I regret nothing

Ni le bien qu'on m'a fait, ni le mal — Neither the good done to me, nor the bad

Tout ça m'est bien égal — It's all the same to me

C'est payé, balayé, oublié — It's paid for, swept away, forgotten

Je me fous du passé — I don't care about the past (informal/strong) 

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

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

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

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

All I've done all my life is disobey.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

I can die now. I've lived twice.

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

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

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

Drugs are a carnival in hell.

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