Vidal Sassoon's Quotes

I'm a great jazz fan.

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

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

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.

Judaism is important to me from a tribal point of view.

Mary Quant is my favourite fashion designer.

My greatest regret is selling my company.

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

My mother left me for seven years in an orphanage.

'The Pianist' is a movie I could watch over and over again.

There were so many pretty girls coming into the salon as clients, and others working in the salon. And I thought, 'Hmm. This is rather nice.'

To me hair dressing means shape. It's very important that the foundations should be right.

When I was about 10 I ran away to see my father. He couldn't have cared less. He just took me back as soon as he could.

You must always do what you feel is right.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

So I was shampooing at 14. But I've always thought that had I the opportunity for an education, I would have been an architect. There's no question about it.

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

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.

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

A working woman could save a few shillings a week, and then every five weeks she'd come in and we'd cut her hair. She could shampoo it under the shower, swing it and dry it off or just let it dry by itself. It changed the lives of many young girls who'd never had the opportunity to be styled like that before.

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.

If you don't look good, we don't look good.