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When you write songs you're commenting on love, you're commenting on sex, relationships, whatever it is that you decide to write about it. And I've wanted to write about politics or spiritual ideas for years.
Joan Jett
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Joan Jett
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: September 22
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In pop music, you say, 'You can do what you want to me.' Rock 'n' roll says, 'I'm gonna do what I want to you.'
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Def Leppard is obviously a different band that we are, but the music work well tighter. And the audiences seem work well together too. We are opening, but we're having a good time.
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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.
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I don't really care if you think I'm strange--I ain't gonna change!
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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 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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My parents taught me I could be anything in the world I wanted to be.
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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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You follow any family around, you're going to see elation, you're going to see disharmony.
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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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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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Happiness doesn't necessarily lie in material things. You just have to put yourself in a position to be happy. If you can do what you love for a living, that's a good start.
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Being onstage is everything thats good about life.
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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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I don't like to say where I'll be in 10 years.
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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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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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A lot of the songs I've recorded are songs I write.
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I feel like it's my job to carry the torch.
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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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