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
kings things-change persons
A person like Carole King could make up something, change it, and actually improve it.
spiritual believe mean
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.
song writing giving
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.
song guitar acoustics
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 going to go from slow to almost mid-tempo.
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.
song thinking rights
I tend to think of all the songs the same - I give them all kind of equal rights.
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.