Top 100 Quotes About Joan Jett
#1. You can't take up all the music bins at a CD retail outlet with Spice Girls CDs and leave nothing for the Joan Jett catalogue.
Greg Graffin
#2. I went to do Eclipse right after The Runaways, and I think the director of that movie might have said to another cast member that he had to beat the Joan Jett out of me.
Kristen Stewart
#3. As far as female vocalists, I love Heart, Joan Jett, Courtney Love, Laura Branigan, Linda Ronstadt, Barbra Streisand - or going back to when I was a child, Aileen Quinn, the original Annie.
Fergie
#4. Don't let anyone tell you that you can't do something. Make your own victories. Make your own mistakes.
Joan Jett
#5. It's easier to sit there and say you don't like feminists because they don't have a sense of humor.
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#6. I've always got something to say.
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#8. Radio has changed, there was a little bit of difference around the country and now that is gone and everything is uniform. That is not the only place it's happening in music, there's a lot of consolidation.
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#9. 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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#10. I learned how to scream from Marc Bolan.
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#11. I tend to keep my private life private. I think it's important to have mystique. It's important to keep people thinking and guessing, and you want everyone to think you're singing to them.
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#12. 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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#13. For me the challenge isn't to be different but to be consistent.
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#14. There's nothing wrong with being single and not getting married and being, you know, just an old single lady. Who cares?
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#16. A lot of the touring stuff has become a drag. Traveling itself is a drag. Anyone who's been to an airport knows that.
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#18. 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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#19. My job is intense. It's very physical.
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#20. The thing I get out of it is the connection. I remember going to shows as a kid and meeting eyes with the people in the band, and knowing they are meeting eyes with you, and that moment, that smile, and that's your moment. I want to create millions of little moments for other people.
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#21. Being onstage is everything thats good about life.
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#22. The only good thing you ever said was goodbye.
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#23. I don't give a damn about my reputation. You're living in the past, it's a new generation.
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#24. 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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#25. I was in drama, wanted to be an actor.
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#26. I started The Runaways with Sandy West. We shared the dream of girls playing rock and roll. Sandy was an exuberant and powerful drummer. So underrated, she was the caliber of John Bonham. I am overcome from the loss of my friend. I always told her, we changed the world.
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#27. Obviously, the music and lyrics are in me, but if I let myself get in my own way, I do. I empty out and let it come, and then the music spirits take over.
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#28. And you have a record company behind it, this is a key too, you need people to fight for your records, at least a little bit. So if you have a great song, it's catchy, and you've got a little bit of help, I think that's all you need. But there hasn't been that in music.
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#29. Well, I'll tell you, I don't know how aware teenagers are of me. I think it really depends on the teenager and how well-versed in music they are and what kind of music they like.
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#30. 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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#33. I love rock and roll, so put another dime in the juke box, baby.
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#34. Girls have got balls. They're just a little higher up, that's all.
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#35. I don't know if I get recognized necessarily, though I do get looked at a lot - but I don't know if it's because of who I am, or if people just think I look weird.
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#36. When you write songs you're commenting on love, you're commenting on sex, relationships, whatever it is that you decide to write about it. And I've wanted to write about politics or spiritual ideas for years.
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#37. 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.
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#38. Cutting meat out of your diet is the best thing you can do for animals and your own health.
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#39. Obviously, some people are thick, and they're not gonna see what they don't want to see.
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#40. People are very sincere in their praise, and you can't take it lightly.
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#41. I hope one day people don't look at women like they're out of their minds when they want to pick up an instrument and play. And I think we're getting a lot closer to that.
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#42. 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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#43. 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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#44. Life is strong and fragile. It's a paradox ... It's both things, like quantum physics: It's a particle and a wave at the same time. It all exists all together.
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#45. I love to engage with people who come to see us.
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#46. You can never say never. I'm not sure if I even want to. I just don't know. Some of it is just not able to be reached, you can't remember some of it and the people that could help you remember have passed away. It might have to remain a remain.
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#47. A girl playing rock and roll, it's saying I own my sexuality and I'm going to tell you what I'm going to do. And I think people just find that threatening.
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#48. Women play cellos and violins in symphony orchestras. They're playing Beethoven and Bach. What do you mean they can't play rock and roll?
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#49. Disharmony is natural in any band.
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#50. I think what people see in me is one slice of who I am. It does permeate my life in the sense that I don't like to be told what to do, or how to be, or how I can do it. But I'm probably a lot tamer than people would expect.
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#51. Being the first is kind of dirty, and it's great
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#52. Happiness doesn't necessarily lie in material things. You just have to put yourself in a position to be happy. If you can do what you love for a living, that's a good start.
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#53. 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.
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#55. If you are gonna live your life, just try to not be crazy, have fun but have some focus and some purpose and try to know what that is. If you don't know now, try to figure it out.
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#56. 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.
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#57. The internet did not exist when I started out, the fact that bands can build a website and get all their information out there is really helpful. If you really love to play, I would say to keep doing it, because it's what you love and what you have to do.
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#58. We always play clubs. It's not something that I feel above. Those are my favorite shows because they're intimate, they're tight, their sweaty, they're hot. You're close to the people. Those are my favorites.
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#59. You know, I have a really tough time finding new bands.
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#60. 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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#61. God, I always just think of myself as a jeans and T-shirt kind of person.
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#62. Rock and roll by its nature is sexual. So girls playing rock and roll is saying to the world, "We own our sexuality." I think that pop music is sort of about "you can do what you want to me" kind of energy, while rock and roll is "I'm going to do what I want to you" kind of energy.
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#63. In pop music, you say, 'You can do what you want to me.' Rock 'n' roll says, 'I'm gonna do what I want to you.'
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#64. Rock 'n' roll music is what gets me off.
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#65. I leave for the show at least an hour ahead, and I do some vocal warm-ups, and that's pretty much it.
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#66. 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.
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#67. We were really grown up for our age and it was an incredible special band.
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#68. I don't wait till stage to use my sexuality. My zipper's down right now. I mean, I use it all the time.
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#69. I like to hang out with my friends. I love music. I like to go to the movies. I like to eat. I like to cook.
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#70. I'm not necessarily intimidated by really jocky guys. I can talk football with them, you know what I mean?
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#71. Before I settled on music, I wanted to be an archaeologist, an astronaut, all sorts of really diverse things.
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#72. I grew up in a world that told girls they couldn't play rock and roll.
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#73. I do not knowingly kill any living thing - including insects or rodents - and I thank my food for sustaining me.
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#74. If you really believe in yourself, you cannot listen to other people.
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#75. 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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#76. I'd like to just be a little bit more open to making mistakes and not worrying about it so much.
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#77. Vegan With A Vengeance is on my kitchen shelf. This fun and creative book is delicious for people like me, who don't eat pets.
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#78. I love school. I was a great student.
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#79. People don't want to see women doing things they don't think women should do.
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#80. When you're onstage and the audience is smiling and singing and bopping along and you're all on the same level, it's the best feeling in the world. It may sound dumb and corny to say it, but it's like pure love.
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#81. Just be yourself and everything will fall in line, the way it's supposed to be. If you're yourself, that's the best thing you can do, because you can never go "damn if I'd only been myself." Live an authentic life and you don't have to worry about your reputation.
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#82. Success isn't one straight line - it's a ladder, and there's always another rung above you to reach out for. Like anything else, there are ups and downs.
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#83. I have a tough time judging myself.
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#84. You got nothing to lose, you don't lose when you lose fake friends.
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#85. I had a blast doing the Warped Tour, but it's good to be home, for sure.
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#86. Women are still second-class citizens.
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#87. I don't really care if you think I'm strange
I ain't gonna change!
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#88. A lot of the songs I've recorded are songs I write.
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#89. Anyone who wants to know who I am can just read my lyrics - I've always written about who I am.
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#90. 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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#91. I plan to stay in music. I plan to keep making records.
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#92. When you're singing songs about love and sex, you want everyone to think you're singing to them. Whether you're a boy, a girl, a woman, a man - whatever you're into, I can be that.
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#93. I think it's important to have mystique.
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#94. Well you know I've been in that place too where you worry about what everybody thinks of you, am I popular, do people care, are they looking at me, all that stuff. That's a drag, man. Having to worry about fitting in, am I cool enough to ANYTHING.
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#95. I'm having fun opening up. Sort of struggling to get the audience into it. It's good. It makes you fight. Not fight like antagonistic. But fight for what you believe.
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#96. 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.
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#97. 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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#98. Get a book, so you know where to put your fingers. Otherwise it would be tough to learn. Also you have to fight through getting callouses on your fingers because it hurts, you are pressing your fingers on metal strings, they will hurt at first until you start building up callouses.
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#99. I think it's what the times are demanding. If you're talking about the popular artists, they collaborate with a lot of different people and it seems to be in vogue now. It probably is indicative of the times.
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#100. When I met you you were oh so sweet, now you give me the bread and you take all the meat.
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