Jules Shear Quotes

• Shouldn't the low strings be at the bottom?

  Jules Shear

  Lows, Strings, Bottom

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

  Jules Shear

  Song, Writing, People

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• 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.

  Jules Shear

  People, Sound, Turns

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

  Jules Shear

  Nice, Trying, Hopelessness

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

  Jules Shear

  Song, Thinking, Rights

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

  Jules Shear

  Funny, Real, School

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

  Jules Shear

  People, Asking, Compare

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

  Jules Shear

  Play, Lefties, Taught

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• Things kind of happen organically with me.

  Jules Shear

  Kind, Happens

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

  Jules Shear

  Crazy, Madness, Kind

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• The bottom string is tuned to an open G.

  Jules Shear

  Strings, Bottom

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• 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.

  Jules Shear

  Song, Guitar, Acoustics

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• 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.

  Jules Shear

  Song, Writing, Giving

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• I love to get people to sing and play together.

  Jules Shear

  Play, People, Together

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

  Jules Shear

  Mean, Three, Rewriting

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

  Jules Shear

  Gigs, Figures

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• 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.

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  Spiritual, Believe, Mean

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

  Jules Shear

  People, Enjoy, Knows

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

  Jules Shear

  Kings, Things Change, Persons

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

  Jules Shear

  Men, Long, Woodstock

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

  Jules Shear

  Saws, Speak, One Time

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