Q: like a lot of people, i hold my music to a really high standard, and i feel like if it isn't approaching perfection then nobody will think it sounds 'good enough'. it's really demotivating. what's your strategy for dealing with stuff like this?
A: well first of all, i doubt anyone even likes perfect music. but also, it doesn't exist. perfection implies a specific objective, and a ceiling for how close to possibly acheive it. even if the specific objective of music is to 'make people feel good', there's no limit to how high that goes, or the amount of ways it can be done. so instead of 'converging' on a single best solution, instead it 'diverges'