Quote

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

Joan Jett

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Joan Jett
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: September 22
Actor
Composer
Guitarist
Manufacturer
Record Producer
Recording Artist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Television Actor
Vocalist
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Joan Marie Larkin
Jett
World
Rock
Girls
Rocks
Couldn
Grew
Told
Girl
Play
Roll

More quotes by Joan Jett

Image
The better your base is, and the more you know from experience, the better off you'll be when you try and make the big move.
Joan Jett
Image
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.
Joan Jett
Image
People like to tear you down. People are always going to take shots. You've just got to go for it.
Joan Jett
Image
I don't like to say where I'll be in 10 years.
Joan Jett
Image
Being onstage is everything thats good about life.
Joan Jett
Image
Egotistical people are not pretty. We all know that, I'm sure everybody knows an egotistical person someplace.
Joan Jett
Image
Anyone who wants to know who I am can just read my lyrics - I've always written about who I am.
Joan Jett
Image
I feel like it's my job to carry the torch.
Joan Jett
Image
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.
Joan Jett
Image
I don't really care if you think I'm strange--I ain't gonna change!
Joan Jett
Image
People don't want to see women doing things they don't think women should do.
Joan Jett
Image
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
Image
I've done some acting and a lot of different things, but mostly it's the music.
Joan Jett
Image
It's easier to sit there and say you don't like feminists because they don't have a sense of humor.
Joan Jett
Image
A lot of people ask me why I don't expand and explore other musical areas, but I like the plain three- and four-chord rock-and-roll that I call the the semi-blues.
Joan Jett
Image
Success isn't one straight line - it's a ladder, and there's always another rung above you to reach out for. Like anything else, there are ups and downs.
Joan Jett
Image
I love school. I was a great student.
Joan Jett
Image
The Runaways' audience was 90 percent male. That was kind of depressing...Why don't women-our own gender-come out and support us?
Joan Jett
Image
Well before I was in a band, I wanted to be everything from a vet, an astronaut, an archeologist was a big one. It could be very wide-ranging because I had a lot of different interests including music so I'm very happy where I wound up.
Joan Jett
Image
Vegan With A Vengeance is on my kitchen shelf. This fun and creative book is delicious for people like me, who don’t eat pets.
Joan Jett