Joan Jett Quotes
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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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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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People are very sincere in their praise, and you can't take it lightly.
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Pop music is not a threatening style of music.
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Things work in cycles.
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I'm not a list person.
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I plan to stay in music. I plan to keep making records.
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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 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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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 have a really tough time finding new bands.
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You got nothing to lose. You don't lose when you lose fake friends.
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Rock 'n' roll music is what gets me off.
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I don't look good in beige.
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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.
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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'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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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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Nobody knows what anticipation is anymore. Everything is so immediate.
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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'd like to just be a little bit more open to making mistakes and not worrying about it so much.
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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'm not necessarily intimidated by really jocky guys. I can talk football with them, you know what I mean?
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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.