264 Quotes by Joan Jett

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.’

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.