Joan Jett Quotes

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Joan Jett

Profession : Musician

Birth : September 22, 1958

Anyone who wants to know who I am can just read my lyrics - I've always written about who I am.

Joan Jett

Obviously, some people are thick, and they're not gonna see what they don't want to see.

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A lot of the songs I've recorded are songs I write.

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Disharmony is natural in any band.

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Pop music is not a threatening style of music.

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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.'

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I like the way black looks. I think I look better in darker clothes. And maybe the fact that I wear black so much makes me more aware of putting people at ease. The black is sort of the bad-guy guise, so I work overtime to make people comfortable.

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I was in drama, wanted to be an actor.

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I love school. I was a great student.

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Things work in cycles.

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I'm not necessarily intimidated by really jocky guys. I can talk football with them, you know what I mean?

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You follow any family around, you're going to see elation, you're going to see disharmony.

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I've done some acting and a lot of different things, but mostly it's the music.

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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.

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I'll be working until I die.

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God, I always just think of myself as a jeans and T-shirt kind of person.

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I'm not a list person.

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Beyond just writing about falling in love and out of love and wanting to do certain things and going out and partying and all the things that I grew up writing about, I want to write about deeper things.

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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.

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I don't like to say where I'll be in 10 years.

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