Quotes by Joan Jett

Joan Jett

A girl can do what she wants to do / And that’s what I’m gonna do.

Can Do

Girl

Want

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.

Girl

Rocks

Thinking

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.

People

Rock And Roll

Rocks

A lot of people would say “well that’s not a bad reputation. you sound like a pussy” and I would say yea. but I am passionate about music and being taken seriously about my music, so if you’re going to mess with that, we have a problem.

People

Pussy

Taken

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

Song

Writing

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

Airports

Stuff

Touring

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.

May

Mean

People

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.

Fighting

Song

Thinking

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

Knows

Want

Who I Am

As a kid, in the Runaways, I would see the interviewers start to ask about our personal lives and what we did — and I could see the look in their eyes. They were practically frothing at the mouth. So if I answered these questions, I knew they were never gonna talk about the music. It was like that instinct — don’t go there, man. Have boundaries. Have mystery. You don’t have to let everybody in! 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.

Eye

Girl

Kids

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Quotes by Joan Jett

Joan Jett

A girl can do what she wants to do / And that’s what I’m gonna do.

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.

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.

A lot of people would say “well that’s not a bad reputation. you sound like a pussy” and I would say yea. but I am passionate about music and being taken seriously about my music, so if you’re going to mess with that, we have a problem.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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