Joan Jett Quotes
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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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Before I settled on music, I wanted to be an archaeologist, an astronaut, all sorts of really diverse things.
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I feel like it's my job to carry the torch.
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I do not knowingly kill any living thing - including insects or rodents - and I thank my food for sustaining me.
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Nobody knows what anticipation is anymore. Everything is so immediate.
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I left my family, and I left my brother and sister, and I went and lived my dream. I saw everybody, but is it ever enough?
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One of the mistakes I made was believing that the rock n' roll genre as a genre was much more free than the whole pop or R&B scene.
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You got nothing to lose. You don't lose when you lose fake friends.
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You follow any family around, you're going to see elation, you're going to see disharmony.
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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 love to engage with people who come to see us.
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I know music is subjective.
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I don't look good in beige.
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I've done some acting and a lot of different things, but mostly it's the music.
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I had a blast doing the Warped Tour, but it's good to be home, for sure.
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I'm a good person.
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Shaving my head was a millennium ritual, to not let it pass as just another New Year's Eve. A lot has happened to me in the last couple of years, personally and spiritually. I wanted to mark it for myself.
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Obviously, some people are thick, and they're not gonna see what they don't want to see.
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Well, I'll tell you, I don't know how aware teenagers are of me. I think it really depends on the teenager and how well-versed in music they are and what kind of music they like.
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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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When I came back to it, we amicably separated from Warner Bros. I just picked up where I left off, trying to write the rest of this record. It took awhile to get out.
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I don't like to say where I'll be in 10 years.
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I'm having fun opening up. Sort of struggling to get the audience into it. It's good. It makes you fight. Not fight like antagonistic. But fight for what you believe.