Prince (1958–2016) American pop, songwriter, musician and actor
Girls & Boys
Song lyrics, Parade Under the Cherry Moon (1986)
“When I’m creating at the piano, I tend to feel happy; but - the eternal dilemma - how can we be happy amid the unhappines, of other? I’d do everything I could to give everyone a moment of happines. That’s what’s at the heart of my music.”
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