Complex sentence: When he was young, Beau wanted to be a concert pianist, or a great conductor, and often attempts to escape the confines of his dreary existence by going down to the saloon at the local casbah and getting blind drunk.
Split into simpler sentences: When he was young, Beau wanted to be a concert pianist, or a great conductor. Beau often attempts to escape the confines of his dreary existence by going down to the saloon at the local casbah and getting blind drunk.