Jules Shear Quotes

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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 real world.
• Why do it, just because I can? That's kind of crazy.
• Every one of the songs was based around picking an acoustic guitar. That was part of the concept from the beginning, that the tempos were…
• The bottom string is tuned to an open G.
• The nice thing about true hopelessness is that you don't have to try again.
• 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…
• 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…
• A person like Carole King could make up something, change it, and actually improve it.
• Things kind of happen organically with me.
• I was living in Woodstock for a long time, and I thought, I got to get out of here, man.
• Shouldn't the low strings be at the bottom?
• People don't come to Asheville very often, and they don't know I'm there. I enjoy it. I like it.
• I saw Krishnamurti speak one time. And I thought, I'm not going to live here.
• Some gigs will go great. I figure you do a gig, and as many as can get there will get there.
• Rewriting to me means, if I work on it for three days, I've rewritten it.
• I love to get people to sing and play together.
• I tend to think of all the songs the same - I give them all kind of equal rights.
• I don't know too many people because I stay at my house, I write songs, I go to the store.
• I made this record without a record label.
• You could put this record on and not get jarred half-way through. I wanted it to be all cut from one cloth, and that was…

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