Joan Jett Quotes

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We were really grown up for our age and it was an incredible special band.

Joan Jett

So it was out of necessity that Blackheart was born. I think it’s great that now, 25 years later, we’re not only putting out our own music, but are able to put out music by other bands. That’s really exciting for us.

Joan Jett

I’m concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet.

Joan Jett

So now 20 years later people want us to get together so they can take shots at all these old babes trying to get back some youth. I mean come on; I’ve been there. I know what the press would do.

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I think I was born strong-willed. That’s not the kind of thing you can learn. The advantage is, you stick to what you believe in and rarely get pushed out of what you want to do.

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I sure saw a lot of kids that I’m sure didn’t know a lot about us, or we were definitely new to them. The kids who came up to me afterward, we’d talk about music, sign a lot of autographs. So I’m sure we made a lot of new fans.

Joan Jett

Factory farming is one of the biggest contributors to the most serious environmental problems. The meat industry causes more greenhouse gas emissions than all the cars, trucks, planes and ships in the world.

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A lot of people ask me why I don’t expand and explore other musical areas, but I like the plain three- and four-chord rock-and-roll that I call the the semi-blues.

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I wouldn’t say no to other kinds of musical opportunities. I guess that it just depends on what it was or what it required me to do, and if I felt that it compromised my own soul.

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I’ve been doing this stuff for so long it’s the one aspect of my life that I’ve paid attention to and really sort of not paid attention to the rest of it.

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I’ll be working until I die.

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I love sports. I love animals. I love kids. I want to save the world. So how do I combine all those things? I don’t know.

Joan Jett

The media says that equality for women has arrived, but if you look around, you still don’t see girls playing guitars and having success with it.

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Aggressive, tough and defiant may describe me, but that leaves the impression I’m mean and I’m not. People expect me to have fangs.

Joan Jett

I bought one of those Learn How to Play Guitar Chords By Yourself and it shows you the diagram where to put your hands and I took that in my room, sat with my singles and learned how to play guitar.

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I left my family, and I left my brother and sister, and I went and lived my dream. I saw everybody, but is it ever enough?

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Beyond just writing about falling in love and out of love and wanting to do certain things and going out and partying and all the things that I grew up writing about, I want to write about deeper things.

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God, I always just think of myself as a jeans and T-shirt kind of person.

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You know, I have a really tough time finding new bands.

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I figured out it was a social thing, what women were allowed to do. At a very young age, I decided I was not going to follow women’s rules.

Joan Jett

We all make judgments on people, but some are much more brutal than others. It’s easy to say, ‘Ya know, I’m not crazy about what she‘s wearing,’ but you don’t have to be nasty about it, and you don’t have to be public about it.

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Blackheart Records being 25 years old represents staying power and the fact that we weren’t able to get a record out through conventional means, so we had to create this record company to put out our records if we wanted to be a band that had records to give out to their fans.

Joan Jett

You follow any family around, you’re going to see elation, you’re going to see disharmony.

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I like the way black looks. I think I look better in darker clothes. And maybe the fact that I wear black so much makes me more aware of putting people at ease. The black is sort of the bad-guy guise, so I work overtime to make people comfortable.

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I love to engage with people who come to see us.

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I was in drama, wanted to be an actor.

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I had a blast doing the Warped Tour, but it’s good to be home, for sure.

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Only because The Runaways were my baby and there’s no reason to get it back together except to totally have fun. If that’s not the goal, then I don’t want to do it.

Joan Jett

People like to tear you down. People are always going to take shots. You’ve just got to go for it.

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You want to have butterflies in your stomach, because if you don’t, if you walk out onstage complacent, that’s not a good thing.

Joan Jett

I think what I’m going to do is get more balance in my life to still be able to go out and play the hard rock ‘n’ roll and do what I like to do in music.

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The follow your dreams thing is really important because so many people are railroaded into taking other paths by their family, their friends, people who should be supportive going, ‘What are you talking about?’ Even just seemingly regular career paths, but if it’s not what people expect for you they kind of react funny.

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Disharmony is natural in any band.

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Performance-wise, you really need to be down in the trenches; you need to do the hard work, for a lot of reasons: To build yourself as a performer, to get a sense of the audience, to work hard and to wonder, ‘Do I really want to do this?’

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Def Leppard is obviously a different band that we are, but the music work well tighter. And the audiences seem work well together too. We are opening, but we’re having a good time.

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Pop music is not a threatening style of music.

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Before I settled on music, I wanted to be an archaeologist, an astronaut, all sorts of really diverse things.

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Girls see these defined roles they’re supposed to follow in life, but when I was a young child, my parents told me I could be anything.

Joan Jett

I don’t know if I miss it per se, but I do miss the fact that there just doesn’t seem to be any rock ‘n’ roll out there anyplace. Everything does seem kind of tame. It’s even hard in Manhattan to go out and find a good band to go see.

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Partly, I like a bad reputation. But I also want a reputation of being a good person.

Joan Jett

Even though everybody’s lives are different, in general we’re all human beings, and we go through the same things: disappointments, the pleasures of life, life and death. That’s always been a really big part of the show to me, making sure the audience feels connected, and that carries through to the album.

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You know I don’t care if the world thinks I’m smart or not.

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I know music is subjective.

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Women are still second-class citizens.

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