Quotes by Jules Shear

About Jules Shear:

Jules Mark Shear is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He wrote the Cyndi Lauper hit single "All Through The Night" and The Bangles' hit "If She Knew What She Wants", and had a minor hit as a performer with "Steady", which reached number 57 on the US charts in 1985.
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A person like Carole King could make up something, change it, and actually improve it.

Jules Shear

Some gigs will go great. I figure you do a gig, and as many as can get there will get there.

Jules Shear

I guess any time you believe in God you've got to be considered a spiritual person. That would make me a spiritual person. But I don't really know what that means.

Jules Shear

I love to get people to sing and play together.

Jules Shear

I made this record without a record label.

Jules Shear

I'm not really getting too involved. My position is, Here's the record. I'm at your disposal.

Jules Shear

I taught myself how to play when I was about 13. I'm a lefty.

Jules Shear

The bottom string is tuned to an open G.

Jules Shear

Shouldn't the low strings be at the bottom?

Jules Shear

I just sat down and thought, I'm going to write a song today, I'm going to give it a try. So I just stuck it on a tape like everything else. That was just another song.

Jules Shear

I tend to think of all the songs the same - I give them all kind of equal rights.

Jules Shear

I had 25 or 30 songs. Sequencing the record, I left that to the producer. I'm not into doing that stuff.

Jules Shear

Why do it, just because I can? That's kind of crazy.

Jules Shear

If you're asking me to compare myself to other people, I don't really know what other people are like.

Jules Shear

I don't know too many people because I stay at my house, I write songs, I go to the store.

Jules Shear

People don't come to Asheville very often, and they don't know I'm there. I enjoy it. I like it.

Jules Shear

Doing this James Brown thing for the last couple of days has been ideal. But it's a different kind of fun.

Jules Shear

Some people just come in, do it and they know it's right. It turns out better than you imagined it was going to sound. When that happens, you take it as a gift.

Jules Shear

The same people who never did their homework in high school are still doing that to this very day out in the real world.

Jules Shear

It took a bit of talking through administrative people, but only once did an attorney try and get in the way of the process and say their artist couldn't do it.

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Author Bio

  • NameJules Shear
  • DescriptionAmerican songwriter
  • Born1952
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionSongwriter