Joan Jett Quotes
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I plan to stay in music. I plan to keep making records.
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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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I remember times when I was at shows and the person onstage locked eyes with me. And in that moment, everything was right with the world. I think that's part of my job, to create these thousands of moments every night. And for the rest of their life, they can say, 'You guys looked at me,' or 'You sweated on me,' or 'I got your gum.'
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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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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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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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People are very sincere in their praise, and you can't take it lightly.
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If you're secure in yourself, and even if you're not secure in yourself, you don't need to bully.
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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.
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Rock 'n' roll music is what gets me off.
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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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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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My job is intense. It's very physical.
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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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For me the challenge isn't to be different but to be consistent.
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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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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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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'm not necessarily intimidated by really jocky guys. I can talk football with them, you know what I mean?
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I feel like it's my job to carry the torch.
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I think it's important to have mystique.
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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 grew up in a world that told girls they couldn't play rock 'n' roll.