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Joan Jett
American
Musician
About the author
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.
Joan Jett,
American
Musician
#Time
#Work
#Music
#Audiences
I've been doing this stuff for so long it's the one aspect of my life that I've paid attention to and really sort of not paid attention to the rest of it.
Joan Jett,
American
Musician
#Life
#Rest
#Attention
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.
Joan Jett,
American
Musician
#Fun
#Fight
I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet.
Joan Jett,
American
Musician
#Time
#Being
#Peace
#Science
#Universe
#Reading
#Trying
#Nature
#Spiritual
#Animals
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.
Joan Jett,
American
Musician
#Soul
I feel like it's my job to carry the torch.
Joan Jett,
American
Musician
#Job
I don't know if I miss it per se, but I do miss the fact that there just doesn't seem to be any rock 'n' roll out there anyplace. Everything does seem kind of tame. It's even hard in Manhattan to go out and find a good band to go see.
Joan Jett,
American
Musician
#Fact
Girls have got balls. They're just a little higher up that's all.
Joan Jett,
American
Musician
#Girls
My guitar is not a thing. It is an extension of myself. It is who I am.
Joan Jett,
American
Musician
#Guitar
I'd like to just be a little bit more open to making mistakes and not worrying about it so much.
Joan Jett,
American
Musician
#Mistakes
#Open
Blackheart Records being 25 years old represents staying power and the fact that we weren't able to get a record out through conventional means, so we had to create this record company to put out our records if we wanted to be a band that had records to give out to their fans.
Joan Jett,
American
Musician
#Fans
#Years
#Being
#Old
#Power
#Fact
#Company
And you have a record company behind it, this is a key too, you need people to fight for your records, at least a little bit. So if you have a great song, it's catchy, and you've got a little bit of help, I think that's all you need. But there hasn't been that in music.
Joan Jett,
American
Musician
#People
#Song
#Help
#Fight
#Key
#Music
#Company
I figured out it was a social thing, what women were allowed to do. At a very young age, I decided I was not going to follow women's rules.
Joan Jett,
American
Musician
#Age
#Women
#Rules
Aggressive, tough and defiant may describe me, but that leaves the impression I'm mean and I'm not. People expect me to have fangs.
Joan Jett,
American
Musician
#People
#May
#Impression
I think what I'm going to do is get more balance in my life to still be able to go out and play the hard rock 'n' roll and do what I like to do in music.
Joan Jett,
American
Musician
#Life
#Play
#Balance
#Music
I love to engage with people who come to see us.
Joan Jett,
American
Musician
#Love
#People
I plan to stay in music. I plan to keep making records.
Joan Jett,
American
Musician
#Music
I really wanted it to be organic and coming from my heart. So, I think maybe the initial thought of wanting to go in that direction, I had to wait until things happened in our world and in our country that fired me up enough where the words came out organically.
Joan Jett,
American
Musician
#Words
#Heart
#World
#Thought
#Country
#Direction
I sure saw a lot of kids that I'm sure didn't know a lot about us, or we were definitely new to them. The kids who came up to me afterward, we'd talk about music, sign a lot of autographs. So I'm sure we made a lot of new fans.
Joan Jett,
American
Musician
#Talk
#Fans
#Kids
#Music
I think there's nothing better than seeing a three-chord straight up rock 'n' roll band in your face with sweaty music and three minute good songs.
Joan Jett,
American
Musician
#Songs
#Nothing
#Music
I like to hang out with my friends. I love music. I like to go to the movies. I like to eat. I like to cook.
Joan Jett,
American
Musician
#Love
#Friends
#Movies
#Music
I think I was born strong-willed. That's not the kind of thing you can learn. The advantage is, you stick to what you believe in and rarely get pushed out of what you want to do.
Joan Jett,
American
Musician
#Want
I love sports. I love animals. I love kids. I want to save the world. So how do I combine all those things? I don't know.
Joan Jett,
American
Musician
#Want
#Love
#Kids
#World
#Animals
#Sports
Rock 'n' roll music is what gets me off.
Joan Jett,
American
Musician
#Music
People don't want to see women doing things they don't think women should do.
Joan Jett,
American
Musician
#Want
#People
#Women
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.
Joan Jett,
American
Musician
#Years
#New year
#Ritual
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.
Joan Jett,
American
Musician
#Now
#Years
#Necessity
#Music
You know I don't care if the world thinks I'm smart or not.
Joan Jett,
American
Musician
#World
#Care
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.
Joan Jett,
American
Musician
#Want
#Fun
#Reason
#Baby
#Goal
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.
Joan Jett,
American
Musician
#Want
#Now
#People
#Years
#Youth
#Old
#Trying
#Press
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.
Joan Jett,
American
Musician
#People
#Play
#Favorite
We were really grown up for our age and it was an incredible special band.
Joan Jett,
American
Musician
#Age
When I came back to it, we amicably separated from Warner Bros. I just picked up where I left off, trying to write the rest of this record. It took awhile to get out.
Joan Jett,
American
Musician
#Trying
#Rest
My parents taught me I could be anything in the world I wanted to be.
Joan Jett,
American
Musician
#World
#Parents
You got nothing to lose. You don't lose when you lose fake friends.
Joan Jett,
American
Musician
#Nothing
#Friends
You know, I have a really tough time finding new bands.
Joan Jett,
American
Musician
#Time
I had a blast doing the Warped Tour, but it's good to be home, for sure.
Joan Jett,
American
Musician
#Home
I grew up in a world that told girls they couldn't play rock 'n' roll.
Joan Jett,
American
Musician
#World
#Play
#Girls
Why there aren't people out there willing to have fun playing rock 'n' roll. I just don't get it.
Joan Jett,
American
Musician
#People
#Fun