Simone

"``I only met Simone last year and it was like meeting Sarah Vaughan or Dinah Washington. She has a very strong identity, she sings with a lot of passion and grace.´´"

"Music for me is like a balsam. I always whish that when people are watching me or listening to me, they take with them this energy I receive from God."

"``The roses are a form of gratitude, it is my memory to the public. And the white clothes already comes from a long time. The white is the unification of all the colors and it symbolizes my spiritual master, that accompanies me always."

"Simone is one of the best singers in the world"

"I think an interpreter has to sing everything, to sing what wants to sing. It cannot be with that foolishness, that here in Brazil we face this thing that when one records a song, later no one can rerecord it. This is madness, absurd. Music doesnt have an owner, the music doesn´t belong to anyone."

"The only person who could make me stop singing is the one who made me sing: God, the beauty up there!"

"Yes, I would, if they are the kind that shakes."

"When we are young we believe to be adults; when we are adults we believe to be young."

"If I had to choose a song to listen to before I died, it would be Simone singing Começar de novo."

"``When Simone opens her arms on the stage no one is more powerful on MPB´´."

"``I Like Simone very much. Potentially, there is a talent to bloom out. She is a beautiful woman, her repertory is very good and she is very well orientated by Flavio Rangel and Nelson Ayres´´."

"``Your voice is extraordinary and doesn´t need support. When you are sentimental, that´s when you are at your best. Your talent is revealed by this.´´"