Jules Shear
Jules Shear
Jules Mark Shearis 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 charted a hit as a performer with "Steady" in 1985...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSongwriter
Date of Birth7 March 1952
CountryUnited States of America
crazy kind madness
Why do it, just because I can? That's kind of crazy.
saws speak one-time
I saw Krishnamurti speak one time. And I thought, I'm not going to live here.
gigs figures
Some gigs will go great. I figure you do a gig, and as many as can get there will get there.
nice trying hopelessness
The nice thing about true hopelessness is that you don't have to try again.
strings bottom
The bottom string is tuned to an open G.
song writing people
I don't know too many people because I stay at my house, I write songs, I go to the store.
play people together
I love to get people to sing and play together.
mean rewriting three
Rewriting to me means, if I work on it for three days, I've rewritten it.
play taught lefties
I taught myself how to play when I was about 13. I'm a lefty.
people asking compare
If you're asking me to compare myself to other people, I don't really know what other people are like.
people sound turns
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.
strings lows bottom
Shouldn't the low strings be at the bottom?
I'm not really getting too involved. My position is, Here's the record. I'm at your disposal.
I'm going to play as much as they want me to, as long as I can put up with what they book me.