Quality vs Quantity

Quality vs quantity. Some say it's always about the quality. Some say if you focus on the quantity, the quality will come. Some say it always has to be both! For me, it's about how high you set the standard for each individual piece of work. It also depends where on the spectrum you're at.

Songwriting example: I want to have 1000 great songs in my portfolio. That is both high quality and quantity. That's the long term goal.

However, I find it hard to write a good song, let alone a great one. Although it's subjective, let's define good. For me, good is 70%. Great is 90%. Perfect is 100% (and some say it doesn't exist!) Now I would make two separate folders: good songs and great songs. Now my short term goal is to write 100 good songs in a year. That is way more achievable and in a sense it's easier.

Lowering the standard of work can boost productivity and, most importantly: shipment. Delivery. Finishing a song!

P.S. Stumbled across this whilst I was learning some jazz standards. Same theory applies- I would rather learn more tunes that I know quite well than learn only a few tunes which I absolutely know best. Also, if you continue to learn more, it is likely that you will stumble across something that resonates well with you and those are the tunes that you will know best, inside out!