Facts about Joan Jett 
Summary
Joan Jett is a famous Musician from USA, she is still alive and was born September 22, 1958.
Biography
Joan Jett (born Joan Marie Larkin) is a female, American rock singer and guitarist. She and Joni Mitchell are the only two female guitarists, which appears on the rock magazine Rolling Stones' list of the top 100 guitarists of all time. Joan Jett on 87th space.
Her best-known hits are enough I Love Rock'n'Roll, Crimson and Clover and I Hate Myself For Loving You.
She has been involved in two bands: Joan Jett And The Black Hearts and female rock'n'roll band The Runaways. Her music style is hard rock, and she has played in concerts with bands like Police, Queen and Aerosmith.
Joan Jett has traditionally supported the Democratic Party in the USA and has been a constant support of the American soldiers, whom she has regularly played for also abroad. Joan Jett is associated with United Services Organization (USO). Zodiac etc.
She is born under the zodiac virgo, who is known for Analyzing, Practical, Reflective, Observation, Thoughtful.
Our collection contains 38 quotes who is written / told by Joan, under the main topics: Women, Peace.
Related authors: Joni Mitchell
Source / external links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Jett
Famous quotes by Joan Jett (38)
"I grew up in a world that told girls they couldn't play rock 'n' roll"
"People don't want to see women doing things they don't think women should do"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"I love to engage with people who come to see us"
"I had a blast doing the Warped Tour, but it's good to be home, for sure"
"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"
"You know I don't care if the world thinks I'm smart or not"
"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"
"Why there aren't people out there willing to have fun playing rock 'n' roll. I just don't get it"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"I plan to stay in music. I plan to keep making records"
"You know, I have a really tough time finding new bands"
"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"
"Rock 'n' roll music is what gets me off"
"I'd like to just be a little bit more open to making mistakes and not worrying about it so much"
"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"
"Girls have got balls. They're just a little higher up that's all"
"My parents taught me I could be anything in the world I wanted to be"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"People don't want to see women doing things they don't think women should do"
"My guitar is not a thing. It is an extension of myself. It is who I am"
"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"
"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"
"I feel like it's my job to carry the torch"
"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"
"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"
"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"
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