Top 120 Joan Jett Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “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

102. “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

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

— Joan Jett

104. “I don’t like to say where I’ll be in 10 years.”

— Joan Jett

105. “Why there aren’t people out there willing to have fun playing rock ‘n’ roll. I just don’t get it.”

— Joan Jett

106. “My job is intense. It’s very physical.”

— Joan Jett

107. “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

108. “When I met you you were oh so sweet, now you give me the bread and you take all the meat.”

— Joan Jett

109. “Beyond just writing about falling in love and out of love and wanting to do certain things and going out and partying and all the things that I grew up writing about, I want to write about deeper things.”

— Joan Jett

110. “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

111. “Girls see these defined roles they’re supposed to follow in life, but when I was a young child, my parents told me I could be anything.”

— Joan Jett

112. “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

113. “Get a book, so you know where to put your fingers. Otherwise it would be tough to learn. Also you have to fight through getting callouses on your fingers because it hurts, you are pressing your fingers on metal strings, they will hurt at first until you start building up callouses.”

— Joan Jett

114. “If you are having trouble making a chord, get a book, that is how I learned. There are guitar tuning apps so you can tune your guitar, and just learn how to play along with your records. And it’s great to be able to play along with another musician. That is like trial by fire.”

— Joan Jett

115. “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

116. “Before I settled on music, I wanted to be an archaeologist, an astronaut, all sorts of really diverse things.”

— Joan Jett

117. “Girls have to be allowed to be sexual too, because they are... it is wrong to say they can’t be, that they can’t own it.”

— Joan Jett

118. “I’ve been able to do a lot of things a lot of people haven’t, that other people would dream of. I’ve been able to live out my fantasies, and dreams! So, I’m real lucky.”

— Joan Jett

119. “I consider that success for anything, whether it’s being a musician or a writer. As long as you can support yourself, you’re successful. People need to change their idea of what success is.”

— Joan Jett

120. “You know, I have a really tough time finding new bands.”

— Joan Jett

121. “I’m not a list person.”

— Joan Jett

122. “I don’t know if I get recognized necessarily, though I do get looked at a lot – but I don’t know if it’s because of who I am, or if people just think I look weird.”

— Joan Jett

123. “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

124. “We all make judgments on people, but some are much more brutal than others. It’s easy to say, ‘Ya know, I’m not crazy about what she’s wearing,’ but you don’t have to be nasty about it, and you don’t have to be public about it.”

— Joan Jett

125. “If you’re secure in yourself, and even if you’re not secure in yourself, you don’t need to bully.”

— Joan Jett

126. “When you’re onstage and the audience is smiling and singing and bopping along and you’re all on the same level, it’s the best feeling in the world. It may sound dumb and corny to say it, but it’s like pure love.”

— Joan Jett

127. “I had a blast doing the Warped Tour, but it’s good to be home, for sure.”

— Joan Jett

128. “I’m not necessarily intimidated by really jocky guys. I can talk football with them, you know what I mean?”

— Joan Jett

129. “I think it’s what the times are demanding. If you’re talking about the popular artists, they collaborate with a lot of different people and it seems to be in vogue now. It probably is indicative of the times.”

— Joan Jett

130. “A lot of the songs I’ve recorded are songs I write.”

— Joan Jett

131. “Well before I was in a band, I wanted to be everything from a vet, an astronaut, an archeologist was a big one. It could be very wide-ranging because I had a lot of different interests including music so I’m very happy where I wound up.”

— Joan Jett

132. “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

133. “My parents taught me I could be anything in the world I wanted to be.”

— Joan Jett