Jules Shear Quotes

Shouldn't the low strings be at the bottom?

The same people who never did their homework in high school are still doing that to this very day out in the real world.

I tend to think of all the songs the same - I give them all kind of equal rights.

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.

Why do it, just because I can? That's kind of crazy.

Rewriting to me means, if I work on it for three days, I've rewritten it.

Some gigs will go great. I figure you do a gig, and as many as can get there will get there.

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.

I don't know too many people because I stay at my house, I write songs, I go to the store.

The nice thing about true hopelessness is that you don't have to try again.

If you're asking me to compare myself to other people, I don't really know what other people are like.

I taught myself how to play when I was about 13. I'm a lefty.

Things kind of happen organically with me.

The bottom string is tuned to an open G.

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.

I love to get people to sing and play together.

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.

People don't come to Asheville very often, and they don't know I'm there. I enjoy it. I like it.

A person like Carole King could make up something, change it, and actually improve it.

I was living in Woodstock for a long time, and I thought, I got to get out of here, man.

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