Top 120 Joan Jett Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “I left my family, and I left my brother and sister, and I went and lived my dream. I saw everybody, but is it ever enough?”

— Joan Jett

52. “I learned how to scream from Marc Bolan.”

— Joan Jett

53. “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

54. “A girl playing rock and roll, it’s saying I own my sexuality and I’m going to tell you what I’m going to do. And I think people just find that threatening.”

— Joan Jett

55. “The only good thing you ever said was goodbye.”

— Joan Jett

56. “A lot of people ask me why I don’t expand and explore other musical areas, but I like the plain three- and four-chord rock-and-roll that I call the the semi-blues.”

— Joan Jett

57. “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

58. “The thing I get out of it is the connection. I remember going to shows as a kid and meeting eyes with the people in the band, and knowing they are meeting eyes with you, and that moment, that smile, and that’s your moment. I want to create millions of little moments for other people.”

— Joan Jett

59. “Being the first is kind of dirty, and it’s great.”

— Joan Jett

60. “Well you know I’ve been in that place too where you worry about what everybody thinks of you, am I popular, do people care, are they looking at me, all that stuff. That’s a drag, man. Having to worry about fitting in, am I cool enough to ANYTHING.”

— Joan Jett

61. “It’s easier to sit there and say you don’t like feminists because they don’t have a sense of humor.”

— Joan Jett

62. “People are very sincere in their praise, and you can’t take it lightly.”

— Joan Jett

63. “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

64. “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

65. “Nobody knows what anticipation is anymore. Everything is so immediate.”

— Joan Jett

66. “I feel like it’s my job to carry the torch.”

— Joan Jett

67. “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.’”

— Joan Jett

68. “People don’t want to see women doing things they don’t think women should do.”

— Joan Jett

69. “I want to be singing to everybody, and I want everybody to think that I’m singing to them. Guys, girls and everyone in between.”

— Joan Jett

70. “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.”

— Joan Jett

71. “I know music is subjective.”

— Joan Jett

72. “For me the challenge isn’t to be different but to be consistent.”

— Joan Jett

73. “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?’”

— Joan Jett

74. “Obviously, the music and lyrics are in me, but if I let myself get in my own way, I do. I empty out and let it come, and then the music spirits take over.”

— Joan Jett

75. “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.”

— Joan Jett

76. “We were really grown up for our age and it was an incredible special band.”

— Joan Jett

77. “You follow any family around, you’re going to see elation, you’re going to see disharmony.”

— Joan Jett

78. “You know I don’t care if the world thinks I’m smart or not.”

— Joan Jett

79. “I love to engage with people who come to see us.”

— Joan Jett

80. “I think it’s important to have mystique.”

— Joan Jett

81. “Pop music is not a threatening style of music.”

— Joan Jett

82. “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

83. “To be so superfocused and honed in on one thing can be good because then you get what you’re supposed to get done, done but you also miss out on other things. I could have spent more time with my family, and a million other little things.”

— Joan Jett

84. “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.”

— Joan Jett

85. “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

86. “I do not knowingly kill any living thing – including insects or rodents – and I thank my food for sustaining me.”

— Joan Jett

87. “I’ve done some acting and a lot of different things, but mostly it’s the music.”

— Joan Jett

88. “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

89. “It’s hard to have a dialogue when you’re name-calling.”

— Joan Jett

90. “I’m really happy doing what I’m doing. I’m not looking to do anything else. I love what I do. I love music. I love playing. I love touring.”

— Joan Jett

91. “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

92. “God, I always just think of myself as a jeans and T-shirt kind of person.”

— Joan Jett

93. “The better your base is, and the more you know from experience, the better off you’ll be when you try and make the big move.”

— Joan Jett

94. “Anyone who wants to know who I am can just read my lyrics – I’ve always written about who I am.”

— Joan Jett

95. “A lot of the touring stuff has become a drag. Traveling itself is a drag. Anyone who’s been to an airport knows that.”

— Joan Jett

96. “I plan to stay in music. I plan to keep making records.”

— Joan Jett

97. “The internet did not exist when I started out, the fact that bands can build a website and get all their information out there is really helpful. If you really love to play, I would say to keep doing it, because it’s what you love and what you have to do.”

— Joan Jett

98. “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

99. “I was in drama, wanted to be an actor.”

— Joan Jett

100. “I’d like to just be a little bit more open to making mistakes and not worrying about it so much.”

— Joan Jett