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
company manager record spend sudden time trying
You spend so much time trying to get things right, and all of a sudden the record company has changed, your manager is changed, everything.
nice trying hopelessness
The nice thing about true hopelessness is that you don't have to try again.
poor road southern tobacco
Erskine Caldwell was a Southern writer, Tobacco Road is really good, but it can get you a little depressed. It's about poor folks.
attracted brothers grew miss singing
I've always been attracted to singing with other people. I grew up singing with my brothers and I miss that sometimes, not being in a band.
brown couple james
Doing this James Brown thing for the last couple of days has been ideal. But it's a different kind of fun.
attorney bit took
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.
american-musician
I had 25 or 30 songs. Sequencing the record, I left that to the producer. I'm not into doing that stuff.
funny real school
The same people who never did their homework in high school are still doing that to this very day out in the real world.
people enjoy asheville
People don't come to Asheville very often, and they don't know I'm there. I enjoy it. I like it.
men long woodstock
I was living in Woodstock for a long time, and I thought, I got to get out of here, man.
kind happens
Things kind of happen organically with me.
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.