Top 55 Joan Jett Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

Pop music is not a threatening style of music.

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

I’ve always got something to say.

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

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.

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.

Life is strong and fragile. It’s a paradox… It’s both things, like quantum physics: It’s a particle and a wave at the same time. It all exists all together.

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

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

Disharmony is natural in any band.

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.

I don’t look good in beige.

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

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.

I’ll be working until I die.

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.

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’m not a list person.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

I know music is subjective.

I love to engage with people who come to see us.

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 a good person.

I think it’s important to have mystique.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Things work in cycles.

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.

Women are still second-class citizens.

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

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.

Nobody knows what anticipation is anymore. Everything is so immediate.

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

I love school. I was a great student.

My job is intense. It’s very physical.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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