For me personally as a composer the idea of corrupting or ennobling seams too absolute to offer a
solution. The amount of situational, social and emotional control of the audience required makes
this an impossible position to gain uniformly. Indeed the declining moral standard means even pure
shock value can no longer be assured. Instead I prefer the thought of John Lloyd 'if it [art] does not
ennoble it promises a sketch of nobility'. To me this offers a far greater reward than ennobling some
and corrupting others instead it offers me the opportunity to display greatness for others to aspire to
and surely this is the greatest way in which one can ennoble himself and another.