Joan Jett Quotes
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I'm not a list person.
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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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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'd like to just be a little bit more open to making mistakes and not worrying about it so much.
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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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Disharmony is natural in any band.
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I plan to stay in music. I plan to keep making records.
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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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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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Rock 'n' roll music is what gets me off.
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I feel like it's my job to carry the torch.
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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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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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You got nothing to lose. You don't lose when you lose fake friends.
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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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My job is intense. It's very physical.
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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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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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Nobody knows what anticipation is anymore. Everything is so immediate.
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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 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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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 it's important to have mystique.
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I grew up in a world that told girls they couldn't play rock 'n' roll.