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Joan Jett Quotes

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.

– Joan Jett

I’m a good person.

– Joan Jett

People like to tear you down. People are always going to take shots. You’ve just got to go for it.

– Joan Jett

We were really grown up for our age and it was an incredible special band.

– Joan Jett

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

I don’t look good in beige.

– Joan Jett

I had a blast doing the Warped Tour, but it’s good to be home, for sure.

– Joan Jett

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

– Joan Jett

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

– Joan Jett

Things work in cycles.

– Joan Jett

For me the challenge isn’t to be different but to be consistent.

– 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

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.

– Joan Jett

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

– Joan Jett

I plan to stay in music. I plan to keep making records.

– Joan Jett

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

– Joan Jett

Why there aren’t people out there willing to have fun playing rock ‘n’ roll. I just don’t get it.

– Joan Jett

I have a tough time judging myself.

– 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.

– Joan Jett

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

Rock ‘n’ roll music is what gets me off.

– Joan Jett

I’m having fun opening up. Sort of struggling to get the audience into it. It’s good. It makes you fight. Not fight like antagonistic. But fight for what you believe.

– Joan Jett

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

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?

– Joan Jett

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.

– Joan Jett

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

– Joan Jett

Performance-wise, you really need to be down in the trenches; you need to do the hard work, for a lot of reasons: To build yourself as a performer, to get a sense of the audience, to work hard and to wonder, ‘Do I really want to do this?’

– Joan Jett

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.

– Joan Jett

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

People are very sincere in their praise, and you can’t take it lightly.

– Joan Jett

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