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I think it's important to have mystique.

Joan Jett

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Joan Jett
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: September 22
Actor
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Guitarist
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Philadelphia
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Joan Marie Larkin
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We always play clubs. It's not something that I feel above. Those are my favorite shows because they're intimate, they're tight, their sweaty, they're hot. You're close to the people. Those are my favorites.
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A girl can do what she wants to do / And that's what I'm gonna do.
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Get a book, so you know where to put your fingers. Otherwise it would be tough to learn. Also you have to fight through getting callouses on your fingers because it hurts, you are pressing your fingers on metal strings, they will hurt at first until you start building up callouses.
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It's hard to have a dialogue when you're name-calling.
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Vegan With A Vengeance is on my kitchen shelf. This fun and creative book is delicious for people like me, who don’t eat pets.
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Just be yourself and everything will fall in line, the way it's supposed to be. If you're yourself, that's the best thing you can do, because you can never go damn if I'd only been myself. Live an authentic life and you don't have to worry about your reputation.
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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.
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People don't want to see women doing things they don't think women should do.
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I know music is subjective.
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Don’t let anyone tell you that you can’t do something. Make your own victories. Make your own mistakes.
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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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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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So now 20 years later people want us to get together so they can take shots at all these old babes trying to get back some youth. I mean come on I've been there. I know what the press would do.
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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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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 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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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.
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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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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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