Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.
God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection.
Classical musicians do this all the time. They want perfection. So they piece things together. Eight bars of this and six bars of that. Glenn Gould said that with a recording he wanted to make perfect versions of pieces.