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Don’t let anyone tell you that you can’t do something. Make your own victories. Make your own mistakes.
Joan Jett
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Joan Jett
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: September 22
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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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My parents taught me I could be anything in the world I wanted to be.
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A lot of people would say well that's not a bad reputation. you sound like a pussy and I would say yea. but I am passionate about music and being taken seriously about my music, so if you're going to mess with that, we have a problem.
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A lot of the touring stuff has become a drag. Traveling itself is a drag. Anyone who's been to an airport knows that.
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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.
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Something happens, you can't even put your finger on it, and then you don't quite feel the same way anymore. All of a sudden, there's fights or something and you are going who is this person? I've seen this happen to other people and it has happened to me.
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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.
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If you are gonna live your life, just try to not be crazy, have fun but have some focus and some purpose and try to know what that is. If you don't know now, try to figure it out.
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I had a blast doing the Warped Tour, but it's good to be home, for sure.
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I grew up in a world that told girls they couldn't play rock 'n' roll.
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The Runaways' audience was 90 percent male. That was kind of depressing...Why don't women-our own gender-come out and support us?
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Life is strong and fragile. It's a paradox... It's both things, like quantum physics: It's a particle and a wave at the same time. It all exists all together.
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Radio has changed, there was a little bit of difference around the country and now that is gone and everything is uniform. That is not the only place it's happening in music, there's a lot of consolidation.
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I don't like to say where I'll be in 10 years.
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Happiness doesn't necessarily lie in material things. You just have to put yourself in a position to be happy. If you can do what you love for a living, that's a good start.
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