Quote

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

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
Lines
Success
Rung
Else
Downs
Another
Ladder
Anything
Ladders
Always
Straight
Like
Reach
Line

More quotes by Joan Jett

Image
Shaving my head was a millennium ritual, to not let it pass as just another New Year's Eve. A lot has happened to me in the last couple of years, personally and spiritually. I wanted to mark it for myself.
Joan Jett
Image
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.'
Joan Jett
Image
The follow your dreams thing is really important because so many people are railroaded into taking other paths by their family, their friends, people who should be supportive going, 'What are you talking about?' Even just seemingly regular career paths, but if it's not what people expect for you they kind of react funny.
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'd like to just be a little bit more open to making mistakes and not worrying about it so much.
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 don't really care if you think I'm strange--I ain't gonna change!
Joan Jett
Image
So it was out of necessity that Blackheart was born. I think it's great that now, 25 years later, we're not only putting out our own music, but are able to put out music by other bands. That's really exciting for us.
Joan Jett
Image
Can't break free from the things that you do. I wanna walk, but I run back to you, that's why I hate myself for loving you.
Joan Jett
Image
Girls see these defined roles they're supposed to follow in life, but when I was a young child, my parents told me I could be anything.
Joan Jett
Image
I think it's what the times are demanding. If you're talking about the popular artists, they collaborate with a lot of different people and it seems to be in vogue now. It probably is indicative of the times.
Joan Jett
Image
God, I always just think of myself as a jeans and T-shirt kind of person.
Joan Jett
Image
A lot of the songs I've recorded are songs I write.
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
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
Disharmony is natural in any band.
Joan Jett
Image
I consider that success for anything, whether it's being a musician or a writer. As long as you can support yourself, you're successful. People need to change their idea of what success is.
Joan Jett
Image
I don't know if I miss it per se, but I do miss the fact that there just doesn't seem to be any rock 'n' roll out there anyplace. Everything does seem kind of tame. It's even hard in Manhattan to go out and find a good band to go see.
Joan Jett
Image
You follow any family around, you're going to see elation, you're going to see disharmony.
Joan Jett
Image
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