Vidal Sassoon Quotes

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  It’s hard to give advice. There are so many people, how do you give major advice to a group of people, it’s very presumptuous.

   

  Vidal Sassoon

  Topics in Advice

  Tags in People

• It was my mother’s idea. Her feeling was that I didn’t have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.

  Vidal Sassoon

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Myself, Feeling

• If you have a sense of style and purpose and will you don’t want to compromise.

  Vidal Sassoon

  Topics in Compromise

  Tags in Purpose

• If you get hold of a head of hair on somebody you’ve never seen before, cut beautiful shapes, cut beautiful architectural angles and she walks out looking so different – I think that’s masterful.

  Vidal Sassoon

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Architectural

• If you don’t look good, we don’t look good.

  Vidal Sassoon

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Look, Good

• I’m a great jazz fan.

  Vidal Sassoon

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Dance

• I’ll never forget one morning I walked in and I had a hell of a bruise – it had been a difficult night the night before – and a client said to me, ‘Good God, Vidal, what happened to your face?’ And I said, ‘Oh, nothing, madam, I just fell over a hairpin.’

  Vidal Sassoon

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Never, Never Forget

• I was born in 1928 and by 1931 the Depression was beginning to mount.

  Vidal Sassoon

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Born

• I was all about my thoughts, my work, my inspiration. I was always in hair.

  Vidal Sassoon

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Thought

• I was a bit of a rebel.

  Vidal Sassoon

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Bit

• I kept thinking I would be spending my life up to my elbows in shampoo.

  Vidal Sassoon

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Thinking

• I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Consider, Creative

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  I got a telegraph from my mother who said that my step-father had had a heart attack, come home and earn a living. So I went back to England and the only thing I knew to earn any cash was through hairdressing.

   

  Vidal Sassoon

  Topics in Life, Mother

  Tags in Telegraph, Earning

• I came home after a year and although my profession was only hairdressing, I knew I could change it.

  Vidal Sassoon

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Profession, Change

• I came home after a year and although my profession was only hairdressing, I knew I could change it.

  Vidal Sassoon

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Knew, Profession

• Hairdressing in general hasn’t been given the kudos it deserves. It’s not recognised by enough people as a worthy craft.

  Vidal Sassoon

  Topics in Beauty

  Tags in Hair, Haircut

• Hairdressers are a wonderful breed. You work one-on-one with another human being and the object is to make them feel so much better and to look at themselves with a twinkle in their eye.

  Vidal Sassoon

  Topics in Beauty, Work

  Tags in Feel, Human, Human Being, Hair

• Hair excited me. As the old ways – backcombing, rollers and rigidity – went out of the window, I started to feel the possibilities in front of my eyes.

  Vidal Sassoon

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hair

• From my point of view, there is a tremendous amount to be said for secular humanism.

  Vidal Sassoon

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Humanism

• For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.

  Vidal Sassoon

  Topics in Beauty

Vidal Sassoon (46)

Birth:	17th January, 1928
Death:	9th May, 2012
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Hairdresser, Businessman

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Vidal Sassoon was a British hairdresser, credited with creating a simple geometric, "Bauhaus-inspired" hair style, also called the wedge bob. Due to the popularity of his styles, he was described as "a rock star, an artist, a craftsman who 'changed the world with a pair of scissors.'"

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