I've made my pact with the Lord for the next lifetime. I would love to be a first-class musician. A super one.
Interpretation
The quote expresses a deep aspiration to excel in music in a future life.
Julie Andrews reflects on her desire to be an exceptional musician in a future incarnation, illustrating a commitment to pursuing oneβs passions and dreams across lifetimes. This sentiment highlights the importance of artistic ambition and the longing to create and connect through music.
In practice
In a speech about following your dreams, this quote beautifully illustrates the importance of pursuing your passions.
I've learned a lot of things about myself through singing. I used to have a certain dislike of the audience, not as individual people, but as a giant body who was judging me. Of course, it wasn`t really them judging me. It was me judging me. Once I got past that fear, it freed me up, not just when I was performing but in other parts of my life.
Singing has been a cherished gift, and my inability to sing has been a devastating blow.
My mother was terribly important to me, and I know how much I yearned for her in my youth, but I don't think I truly trusted her.
I come from a long line of below-stairs maids and gardeners. Good ol' peasant stock. My mother and her sister made a quantum leap out of that life. Then I made another quantum leap.
Every time I go out to perform, believe me. You never lose that fear of, 'I hope I do it right. I hope I don't fall flat on my face. I hope this will be good for them.'
Success is terrifying. Like happiness, it is often appreciated in retrospect. It's only later that you place it in perspective. Years from now, I'll look back and say, βGod, wasn't it wonderful.β
Only write to me, write to me, I love to see the hop and skip and sudden starts of your ink.
My first poem was a bolt from the blue β¦ it broke a spell of disillusion and suicidal despondence. ... it filled me with soul satisfying joy.
I just go into the studio, look at the lyrics for the first time when I put them on the piano, and go. If I haven't got it within 40 minutes, I give up. It's never changed, the thrill has never gone, because I don't know what I'm going to get next.
I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within.
Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality, understood as recalcitrant, inaccessible; of making it stand still. One can't possess reality, one can possess (and be possessed by) images β as, according to Proust, most ambitious of voluntary prisoners, one can't possess the present but one can possessthe past.
This is an evening of wonders, indeed!
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