Top 120 Joan Jett Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “You got nothing to lose. You don’t lose when you lose fake friends.”

— Joan Jett

2. “I love school. I was a great student.”

— Joan Jett

3. “My guitar is not a thing. It is an extension of myself. It is who I am.”

— Joan Jett

4. “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.”

— Joan Jett

5. “Factory farming is one of the biggest contributors to the most serious environmental problems. The meat industry causes more greenhouse gas emissions than all the cars, trucks, planes and ships in the world.”

— Joan Jett

6. “Just be yourself and everything will fall in line, the way it’s supposed to be. If you’re yourself, that’s the best thing you can do, because you can never go “damn if I’d only been myself.” Live an authentic life and you don’t have to worry about your reputation.”

— Joan Jett

7. “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.”

— Joan Jett

8. “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

9. “Don’t let anyone tell you that you can’t do something. Make your own victories. Make your own mistakes.”

— Joan Jett

10. “If you are gonna live your life, just try to not be crazy, have fun but have some focus and some purpose and try to know what that is. If you don’t know now, try to figure it out.”

— Joan Jett

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11. “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?”

— Joan Jett

12. “There’s nothing wrong with being single and not getting married and being, you know, just an old single lady. Who cares?”

— Joan Jett

13. “Girls have got balls. They’re just a little higher up, that’s all.”

— Joan Jett

14. “People like to tear you down. People are always going to take shots. You’ve just got to go for it.”

— Joan Jett

15. “I grew up in a world that told girls they couldn’t play rock ‘n’ roll.”

— Joan Jett

16. “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

17. “I love rock and roll, so put another dime in the juke box, baby.”

— Joan Jett

18. “Women are still second-class citizens.”

— Joan Jett

19. “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.”

— Joan Jett

20. “I think what people see in me is one slice of who I am. It does permeate my life in the sense that I don’t like to be told what to do, or how to be, or how I can do it. But I’m probably a lot tamer than people would expect.”

— Joan Jett

21. “I don’t give a damn about my reputation. You’re living in the past, it’s a new generation.”

— Joan Jett

22. “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.”

— Joan Jett

23. “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.”

— Joan Jett

24. “I don’t really care if you think I’m strange – I ain’t gonna change!”

— Joan Jett

25. “Rock and roll by its nature is sexual. So girls playing rock and roll is saying to the world, “We own our sexuality.” I think that pop music is sort of about “you can do what you want to me” kind of energy, while rock and roll is “I’m going to do what I want to you” kind of energy.”

— Joan Jett

26. “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.”

— Joan Jett

27. “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.”

— Joan Jett

28. “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.”

— Joan Jett

29. “Egotistical people are not pretty. We all know that, I’m sure everybody knows an egotistical person someplace.”

— Joan Jett

30. “Cutting meat out of your diet is the best thing you can do for animals and your own health.”

— Joan Jett

31. “I started The Runaways with Sandy West. We shared the dream of girls playing rock and roll. Sandy was an exuberant and powerful drummer. So underrated, she was the caliber of John Bonham. I am overcome from the loss of my friend. I always told her, we changed the world.”

— Joan Jett

32. “If you really believe in yourself, you cannot listen to other people.”

— Joan Jett

33. “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.”

— Joan Jett

34. “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

35. “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

36. “Obviously, some people are thick, and they’re not gonna see what they don’t want to see.”

— Joan Jett

37. “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

38. “I’ve always got something to say.”

— Joan Jett

39. “You can never say never. I’m not sure if I even want to. I just don’t know. Some of it is just not able to be reached, you can’t remember some of it and the people that could help you remember have passed away. It might have to remain a remain.”

— Joan Jett

40. “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

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41. “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

42. “I don’t pay attention. I don’t read stuff or message boards because you definitely get affected. You can read a hundred great comments, amazing comments, and have one bad one and that is all you can focus on and it wrecks your day. It says something about negativity and how it draws us somehow.”

— Joan Jett

43. “Vegan With A Vengeance is on my kitchen shelf. This fun and creative book is delicious for people like me, who don’t eat pets.”

— Joan Jett

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44. “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

45. “I don’t wait till stage to use my sexuality. My zipper’s down right now. I mean, I use it all the time.”

— Joan Jett

46. “Rock ‘n’ roll music is what gets me off.”

— Joan Jett

47. “I hope one day people don’t look at women like they’re out of their minds when they want to pick up an instrument and play. And I think we’re getting a lot closer to that.”

— Joan Jett

48. “Being onstage is everything thats good about life.”

— Joan Jett

49. “Partly, I like a bad reputation. But I also want a reputation of being a good person.”

— Joan Jett

50. “Well, I’ll tell you, I don’t know how aware teenagers are of me. I think it really depends on the teenager and how well-versed in music they are and what kind of music they like.”

— Joan Jett