In the theater, it's about taking time in a musical segment, a pause in a musical way and then moving on.
“So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage-leaf, to make an apple-pie; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street, pops its head into the shop. 'What! no soap?' So he died, and she very imprudently married the barber.”
“I want to still be singing at 70 years old. I want to be open to the dreams I haven't even dreamed up.”