Joan Jett quotes - page 2

I'm not a list person. (Joan Jett)
I'd like to just be a little bit more open to making mistakes and not worrying about it so much. View quote
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I'll be working until I die. View quote
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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. View quote
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I love to engage with people who come to see us. View quote
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We were really grown up for our age and it was an incredible special band. View quote
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You know, I have a really tough time finding new bands. View quote
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The media says that equality for women has arrived, but if you look around, you still don't see girls playing guitars and having success with it. View quote
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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.' View quote
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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. View quote
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I don't like to say where I'll be in 10 years. (Joan Jett)
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. View quote
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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? View quote
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Partly, I like a bad reputation. But I also want a reputation of being a good person. View quote
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We all make judgments on people, but some are much more brutal than others. It's easy to say, 'Ya know, I'm not crazy about what she's wearing,' but you don't have to be nasty about it, and you don't have to be public about it. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I grew up in a world that told girls they couldn't play rock 'n' roll. View quote
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I do not knowingly kill any living thing - including insects or rodents - and I thank my food for sustaining me. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. (Joan Jett)
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. View quote
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Why there aren't people out there willing to have fun playing rock 'n' roll. I just don't get it. View quote
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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. View quote
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I plan to stay in music. I plan to keep making records. View quote
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