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You follow any family around, you're going to see elation, you're going to see disharmony.
Joan Jett
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Joan Jett
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: September 22
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Joan Marie Larkin
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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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A girl can do what she wants to do / And that's what I'm gonna do.
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A lot of the touring stuff has become a drag. Traveling itself is a drag. Anyone who's been to an airport knows that.
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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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Women play cellos and violins in symphony orchestras. They're playing Beethoven and Bach. What do you mean they can't play rock and roll?
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We were really grown up for our age and it was an incredible special band.
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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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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 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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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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A lot of people ask me why I don't expand and explore other musical areas, but I like the plain three- and four-chord rock-and-roll that I call the the semi-blues.
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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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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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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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I love school. I was a great student.
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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.
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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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I learned how to scream from Marc Bolan.
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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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