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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.

Joan Jett

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Joan Jett
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: September 22
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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.
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I think what people see in me is one slice of who I am. It does permeate my life in the sense that I don't like to be told what to do, or how to be, or how I can do it. But I'm probably a lot tamer than people would expect.
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I grew up in a world that told girls they couldn't play rock 'n' roll.
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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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We were really grown up for our age and it was an incredible special band.
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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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If you really believe in yourself, you cannot listen to other people.
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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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Egotistical people are not pretty. We all know that, I'm sure everybody knows an egotistical person someplace.
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You want to have butterflies in your stomach, because if you don't, if you walk out onstage complacent, that's not a good thing.
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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.
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My parents taught me I could be anything in the world I wanted to be.
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When I met you you were oh so sweet, now you give me the bread and you take all the meat.
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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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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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