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Being the first is kind of dirty, and it's great
Joan Jett
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Joan Jett
Age: 65
Born: 1958
Born: September 22
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Joan Marie Larkin
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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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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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People like to tear you down. People are always going to take shots. You've just got to go for it.
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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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You got nothing to lose. You don't lose when you lose fake friends.
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I think the one-on-one gigs connecting with the fans - is the most important thing. That will help build your fan base. They'll talk about you, and word spreads. Those things are just as important as knowing how to play an E chord.
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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 think it's important to have mystique.
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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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I don't really care if you think I'm strange--I ain't gonna change!
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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.
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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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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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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 only good thing you ever said was goodbye.
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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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Egotistical people are not pretty. We all know that, I'm sure everybody knows an egotistical person someplace.
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I leave for the show at least an hour ahead, and I do some vocal warm-ups, and that's pretty much it.
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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 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?
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