Joan Jett quotes

My guitar is not a thing. It is an extension of myself. It is who I am. (Joan Jett)
You don't lose when you lose fake friends. View quote
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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. View quote
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For me the challenge isn't to be different but to be consistent. View quote
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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. View quote
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People don't want to see women doing things they don't think women should do. View quote
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If you really believe in yourself, you cannot listen to other people. View quote
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Nobody knows what anticipation is anymore. Everything is so immediate. View quote
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Disharmony is natural in any band. View quote
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It's easier to sit there and say you don't like feminists because they don't have a sense of humor. View quote
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My parents taught me I could be anything in the world I wanted to be. (Joan Jett)
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. View quote
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I know music is subjective. View quote
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You know I don't care if the world thinks I'm smart or not. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I've always got something to say. View quote
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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. View quote
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Twenty years ago I thought: "What's the difference between eating a bloody steak and killing my dog, slitting him open and roasting him?" I've always loved animals but it was around the late 80s that I realised I had to go vegetarian. A lot of things converged in my life then – musically, emotionally – but mainly it was my love of animals and spending so much time touring that made me decide I had to change my diet. In the Runaways we used to eat a ton of junk food. So something had to give. View quote
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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. (Joan Jett)
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. View quote
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Before I settled on music, I wanted to be an archaeologist, an astronaut, all sorts of really diverse things. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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