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
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.
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.
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.
saws speak one-time
I saw Krishnamurti speak one time. And I thought, I'm not going to live here.
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.
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.