There is also another important side to that quote. For the most part, none of your audience has your idealised image in their head. None of them know what you'd want your perfect work to be like if you could magic it out of mind verbatim. What is most important to you may be less important, or even negligible, to the average audience experiencing it.

For example, take this now five year old track of mine:

Example 1

There is a number of negative points that could be made against the composition and production quality of this track. Within the first 30 seconds I could give a good list of ways in which it didn't match my internal visions. I'm sure any layman could probably point out that it doesn't completely live up to the pinnacle of either of those facets if pressed. (That's not to say I wasn't happy with this track at the time)

However, that hasn't stopped it garnering over 200,000 views and a plethora of wonderful comments. This was only about a year and a half after I started producing electronic music. Granted, I got a lucky break on a promotional channel that has now gone on to become a massive promotions company, but I still think it demonstrates the point I'm trying to make.

Even if we go back in time a few months from the above track and listen to one that is markedly worse and was only self-promoted, it still got some nice attention:

Example 2

I am not saying this to stroke my ego (okay, maybe a little) but rather to try and demonstrate that people don't care if the product isn't perfect. There are those who will enjoy and even love your work whilst to you it seems lacklustre and disappointing. No-one else knows or cares to think about what it could be like.

We are our own biggest critics, and this is generally a positive force when channelled correctly. But don't let it stop you from finding joy and love in the pursuits you chose to follow.