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Portrait of Jules Shear

Jules Shear

(1952) Songwriter United States

28 quotes in 134 categories

Jules Shear is a songwriter from the United States, best known for Walking a changing line.

Quick Facts About Jules Shear

Born: January 1, 1952
Nationality: United States
Profession: Songwriter
Notable works: Walking a changing line
Spouse: Q7126119

About Jules Shear

Jules Mark Shear is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He wrote the Cyndi Lauper hit single "All Through the Night", the Bangles' hit "If She Knew What She Wants", and the Ignatius Jones and Allison Moyet hit "Whispering Your Name" and charted a hit as a performer with "Steady" in 1985.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Jules Shear

It took a bit of talking through administrative people, but only once did an attorney try and get in the way of…

Administrative

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

Because i can

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

Been

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

Figures

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

Doing

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The bottom string is tuned to an open G.

Bottom

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I love to get people to sing and play together.

People

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The nice thing about true hopelessness is that you don't have to try again.

Hopelessness

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I saw Krishnamurti speak one time. And I thought, I'm not going to live here.

One time

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I was living in Woodstock for a long time, and I thought, I got to get out of here, man.

Long

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You could put this record on and not get jarred half-way through. I wanted it to be all cut from one cloth,…

Cloth

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I guess any time you believe in God you've got to be considered a spiritual person. That would make me a spiritual…

Believe

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Shouldn't the low strings be at the bottom?

Bottom

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Some people just come in, do it and they know it's right. It turns out better than you imagined it was going…

Happens

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I made this record without a record label.

Label

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I'm going to play as much as they want me to, as long as I can put up with what they book…

Book

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

Play

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Rewriting to me means, if I work on it for three days, I've rewritten it.

Mean

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

Funny

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

Enjoy

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A person like Carole King could make up something, change it, and actually improve it.

Kings

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

All kinds

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I just sat down and thought, I'm going to write a song today, I'm going to give it a try. So I…

Down and

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Every one of the songs was based around picking an acoustic guitar. That was part of the concept from the beginning, that…

Acoustic guitar

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

Disposal

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