Joan Jett Quotes
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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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I have a tough time judging myself.
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God, I always just think of myself as a jeans and T-shirt kind of person.
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I'll be working until I die.
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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.
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You know I don't care if the world thinks I'm smart or not.
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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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My guitar is not a thing. It is an extension of myself. It is who I am.
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People don't want to see women doing things they don't think women should do.
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I want to be singing to everybody, and I want everybody to think that I'm singing to them. Guys, girls and everyone in between.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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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.
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I think there's nothing better than seeing a three-chord straight up rock 'n' roll band in your face with sweaty music and three minute good songs.
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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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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.
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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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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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You know, I have a really tough time finding new bands.
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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.
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Things work in cycles.