Joan Jett Quotes

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Joan Jett

Profession : Musician

Birth : September 22, 1958

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.

Joan Jett

Cutting meat out of your diet is the best thing you can do for animals and your own health.

Joan Jett

It's easier to sit there and say you don't like feminists because they don't have a sense of humor.

Joan Jett

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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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.

Joan Jett

You got nothing to lose. You don't lose when you lose fake friends.

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People don't want to see women doing things they don't think women should do.

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My guitar is not a thing. It is an extension of myself. It is who I am.

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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.

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I've always got something to say.

Joan Jett

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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I think it's important to have mystique.

Joan Jett

Nobody knows what anticipation is anymore. Everything is so immediate.

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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.

Joan Jett

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.

Joan Jett

Women are still second-class citizens.

Joan Jett

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.

Joan Jett

When you're onstage and the audience is smiling and singing and bopping along and you're all on the same level, it's the best feeling in the world. It may sound dumb and corny to say it, but it's like pure love.

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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.

Joan Jett

I do not knowingly kill any living thing - including insects or rodents - and I thank my food for sustaining me.

Joan Jett