Top 169 Quotes & Sayings by Joan Jett
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Last updated on December 23, 2024.
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.
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.
If you really believe in yourself, you cannot listen to other people.
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?
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.
Life is strong and fragile. It's a paradox... It's both things, like quantum physics: It's a particle and a wave at the same time. It all exists all together.
I'll be working until I die.
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.
And you have a record company behind it, this is a key too, you need people to fight for your records, at least a little bit. So if you have a great song, it's catchy, and you've got a little bit of help, I think that's all you need. But there hasn't been that in music.
Aggressive, tough and defiant may describe me, but that leaves the impression I'm mean and I'm not. People expect me to have fangs.
I love sports. I love animals. I love kids. I want to save the world. So how do I combine all those things? I don't know.
I think I was born strong-willed. That's not the kind of thing you can learn. The advantage is, you stick to what you believe in and rarely get pushed out of what you want to do.
Anyone who wants to know who I am can just read my lyrics - I've always written about who I am.
I wouldn't say no to other kinds of musical opportunities. I guess that it just depends on what it was or what it required me to do, and if I felt that it compromised my own soul.
Def Leppard is obviously a different band that we are, but the music work well tighter. And the audiences seem work well together too. We are opening, but we're having a good time.
I feel like it's my job to carry the torch.
For me the challenge isn't to be different but to be consistent.
I want to be singing to everybody, and I want everybody to think that I'm singing to them. Guys, girls and everyone in between.
So now 20 years later people want us to get together so they can take shots at all these old babes trying to get back some youth. I mean come on; I've been there. I know what the press would do.
I think it's important to have mystique.
My parents taught me I could be anything in the world I wanted to be.
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.
Nobody knows what anticipation is anymore. Everything is so immediate.
I grew up in a world that told girls they couldn't play rock 'n' roll.
People don't want to see women doing things they don't think women should do.
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.
Why there aren't people out there willing to have fun playing rock 'n' roll. I just don't get it.
If you're secure in yourself, and even if you're not secure in yourself, you don't need to bully.
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.
We always play clubs. It's not something that I feel above. Those are my favorite shows because they're intimate, they're tight, their sweaty, they're hot. You're close to the people. Those are my favorites.
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.
The follow your dreams thing is really important because so many people are railroaded into taking other paths by their family, their friends, people who should be supportive going, 'What are you talking about?' Even just seemingly regular career paths, but if it's not what people expect for you they kind of react funny.
Blackheart Records being 25 years old represents staying power and the fact that we weren't able to get a record out through conventional means, so we had to create this record company to put out our records if we wanted to be a band that had records to give out to their fans.
You know, I have a really tough time finding new bands.
God, I always just think of myself as a jeans and T-shirt kind of person.
So it was out of necessity that Blackheart was born. I think it's great that now, 25 years later, we're not only putting out our own music, but are able to put out music by other bands. That's really exciting for us.
I don't look good in beige.
I think there's nothing better than seeing a three-chord straight up rock 'n' roll band in your face with sweaty music and three minute good songs.
I had a blast doing the Warped Tour, but it's good to be home, for sure.
I'd like to just be a little bit more open to making mistakes and not worrying about it so much.
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.
We were really grown up for our age and it was an incredible special band.
I've been doing this stuff for so long it's the one aspect of my life that I've paid attention to and really sort of not paid attention to the rest of it.
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.
You got nothing to lose. You don't lose when you lose fake friends.
Partly, I like a bad reputation. But I also want a reputation of being a good person.
You follow any family around, you're going to see elation, you're going to see disharmony.
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.
I love to engage with people who come to see us.
People like to tear you down. People are always going to take shots. You've just got to go for it.
I plan to stay in music. I plan to keep making records.
Pop music is not a threatening style of music.
Rock 'n' roll music is what gets me off.
Girls see these defined roles they're supposed to follow in life, but when I was a young child, my parents told me I could be anything.
I really wanted it to be organic and coming from my heart. So, I think maybe the initial thought of wanting to go in that direction, I had to wait until things happened in our world and in our country that fired me up enough where the words came out organically.
My guitar is not a thing. It is an extension of myself. It is who I am.
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.
I think what I'm going to do is get more balance in my life to still be able to go out and play the hard rock 'n' roll and do what I like to do in music.
I love school. I was a great student.
I don't know if I miss it per se, but I do miss the fact that there just doesn't seem to be any rock 'n' roll out there anyplace. Everything does seem kind of tame. It's even hard in Manhattan to go out and find a good band to go see.
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