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.
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.
american-musician
I had 25 or 30 songs. Sequencing the record, I left that to the producer. I'm not into doing that stuff.
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.
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.
strings lows bottom
Shouldn't the low strings be at the bottom?
play taught lefties
I taught myself how to play when I was about 13. I'm a lefty.
play people together
I love to get people to sing and play together.
song thinking rights
I tend to think of all the songs the same - I give them all kind of equal rights.
song writing people
I don't know too many people because I stay at my house, I write songs, I go to the store.
strings bottom
The bottom string is tuned to an open G.
nice trying hopelessness
The nice thing about true hopelessness is that you don't have to try again.
gigs figures
Some gigs will go great. I figure you do a gig, and as many as can get there will get there.