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Quality comes from quantity
There’s often a tension we face when considering “quality” versus “quantity”, but I don’t think that they’re opposing forces. Years ago I shared about making more pots, where art students that created more pottery did better work than those that focused on making one perfect pot.
A recent episode of the “How to Take Over the World” podcast focused on composer John Williams and his similar approach. If you’re not familiar with his name, you’re certainly familiar with his work which has included films such as Jaws, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Jurassic Park, Harry Potter and many others. Here is a quick video with some of his most famous work:
He’s considered one of the greatest film composers of all time, and his work was certainly very high quality, but it came via quantity. From the show:
Quantity versus quality is a false dichotomy. More often than not, quality comes from quantity. He talks about his score for Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and his music is actually a key part of the plot in that movie. It’s a movie about aliens coming to visit Earth, and they send a message in…