Jules Shear Quotes

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

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

I had 25 or 30 songs. Sequencing the record, I left that to the producer. I'm not into doing that stuff.

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

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.

Things kind of happen organically with me.

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

I'm going to play as much as they want me to, as long as I can put up with what they book me.

I made this record without a record label.

I love to get people to sing and play together.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

I'm not really getting too involved. My position is, Here's the record. I'm at your disposal.