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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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Joan Jett
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: September 22
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Joan Marie Larkin
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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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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.
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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.
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I think I look better in darker clothes. And maybe the fact that I wear black so much makes me more aware of putting people at ease.
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I tend to keep my private life private. I think it's important to have mystique. It's important to keep people thinking and guessing, and you want everyone to think you're singing to them.
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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.
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Being the first is kind of dirty, and it's great
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Radio has changed, there was a little bit of difference around the country and now that is gone and everything is uniform. That is not the only place it's happening in music, there's a lot of consolidation.
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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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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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We were really grown up for our age and it was an incredible special band.
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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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I know music is subjective.
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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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Don’t let anyone tell you that you can’t do something. Make your own victories. Make your own mistakes.
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People don't want to see women doing things they don't think women should do.
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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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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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I feel like it's my job to carry the torch.
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My parents taught me I could be anything in the world I wanted to be.
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