Vidal Sassoon Quotes

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  The only place where success comes before work is a dictionary.

  Vidal Sassoon

  Topics in Success, Work

  Tags in Dictionary, Come

• Most people have excellent necks. Now they cover them with curtains, which is kind of ridiculous. But there are some beautiful necklines that you can cut into and create wonderful backs, as well as bone structure for the face.

  Vidal Sassoon

  Topics in Beauty

  Tags in People, Excellent, Beautiful

• 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

• 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

• Like most ghetto kids I knew it was important to be ‘somebody’ so I became a good soccer player, because excelling at a sport seemed to make you special.

  Vidal Sassoon

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Important, Like

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

  Vidal Sassoon

  Topics in Compromise

  Tags in Purpose

• 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

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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

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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

• We learned to put discipline in the haircuts by using actual geometry, actual architectural shapes and bone structure. The cut had to be perfect and layered beautifully, so that when a woman shook it, it just fell back in.

  Vidal Sassoon

  Topics in Beauty

  Tags in Learned, Woman

• Realizing our society as it is, without theology dogmatically telling us how we should react to it, and being humane toward that society, that is all that we’re sure of.

  Vidal Sassoon

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Realizing

• 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’m a great jazz fan.

  Vidal Sassoon

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Dance

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

  Vidal Sassoon

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Consider, Creative

• 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 was a bit of a rebel.

  Vidal Sassoon

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Bit

• My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.

  Vidal Sassoon

  Topics in Mother

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

  Vidal Sassoon

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Thinking

Vidal Sassoon (46)

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

About

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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