A Quote by Meg Rosoff
Every day a piano doesn't fall on my head is good luck.
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Good Lord's been kind to me, that's all I can say. I wake up in the morning with music in my head a lot of times. I won't say every morning, but I wake up in the morning sometimes with eight bars in my head and I just go to the piano.
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Mom and sister played piano growing up; my grandma still plays piano in church. They always beat me over the head trying to get me to play piano, but I was more interested in riding dirt bikes and playing in the mud.
How is it the great pieces of good luck fall to us?
In my youth, it was my good luck to have a few good teachers, men and women, who came into my head and lit a match.
Every day that we wake up is a good day. Every breath that we take is filled with hope for a better day. Every word that we speak is a chance to change what is bad into something good.
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