Star-up disk full!

I get a message that my start-up disk is almost full and that I need to delete some files. But where do I even begin when I need those files? I have the Cloud subscription and I back up my computer on an external hard-drive disk using time machine. Cna I simply delete all my music files and photos and reinstall them from my time machine? I don't have hardly any other stuff that might fill up my disk except Word documents.
Help?
MacBook Pro 15 inch, late 2008
OS X 10.8

Freeing Up Space on The Hard Drive
See Lion's Storage Display.
You can remove data from your Home folder except for the /Home/Library/ folder.
Visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQ on freeing up space on your hard drive.
Also see Freeing space on your Mac OS X startup disk.
See Where did my Disk Space go?.
See The Storage Display.
You must Empty the Trash in order to recover the space they occupied on the hard drive.
You should consider replacing the drive with a larger one. Check out OWC for drives, tutorials, and toolkits.

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