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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.
Joan Jett
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Joan Jett
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: September 22
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I'd like to just be a little bit more open to making mistakes and not worrying about it so much.
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One of the mistakes I made was believing that the rock 'n' roll genre as a genre was much more free than the whole pop or R&B scene.
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Performance-wise, you really need to be down in the trenches you need to do the hard work, for a lot of reasons: To build yourself as a performer, to get a sense of the audience, to work hard and to wonder, 'Do I really want to do this?'
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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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It's easier to sit there and say you don't like feminists because they don't have a sense of humor.
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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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The only good thing you ever said was goodbye.
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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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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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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.'
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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.
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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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I love to engage with people who come to see us.
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God, I always just think of myself as a jeans and T-shirt kind of person.
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Only because The Runaways were my baby and there's no reason to get it back together except to totally have fun. If that's not the goal, then I don't want to do it.
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I think it's important to have mystique.
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I grew up in a world that told girls they couldn't play rock 'n' roll.
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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.
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If you really believe in yourself, you cannot listen to other people.
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The media says that equality for women has arrived, but if you look around, you still don't see girls playing guitars and having success with it.
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