Joan Jett Quotes

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Joan Jett

Profession : Musician

Birth : September 22, 1958

I grew up in a world that told girls they couldn't play rock 'n' roll.

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Partly, I like a bad reputation. But I also want a reputation of being a good person.

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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.

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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.

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You know I don't care if the world thinks I'm smart or not.

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Rock 'n' roll music is what gets me off.

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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.

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If you really believe in yourself, you cannot listen to other people.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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I know music is subjective.

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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.

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I have a tough time judging myself.

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I feel like it's my job to carry the torch.

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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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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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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.

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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.

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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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