Joan Jett Quotes
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I plan to stay in music. I plan to keep making records.
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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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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'm not necessarily intimidated by really jocky guys. I can talk football with them, you know what I mean?
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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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I'm not a list person.
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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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Pop music is not a threatening style of music.
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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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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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Things work in cycles.
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Nobody knows what anticipation is anymore. Everything is so immediate.
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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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Rock 'n' roll music is what gets me off.
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Cutting meat out of your diet is the best thing you can do for animals and your own health.
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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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You got nothing to lose. You don't lose when you lose fake friends.
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You know, I have a really tough time finding new bands.
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People are very sincere in their praise, and you can't take it lightly.
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For me the challenge isn't to be different but to be consistent.
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I don't look good in beige.
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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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Other people will call me a rebel, but I just feel like I'm living my life and doing what I want to do. Sometimes people call that rebellion, especially when you're a woman.
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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.