If your values are only those of what pays most, then you end up in Simon Cowell's stable. Oscar Wilde had it right, a cynic is someone who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. and I defy anyone to make decent music with cynicism in their hearts, it's why orchestral music so rarely gets much credit these days, the bands are full of people playing the same old warhorses the same old way on tape replay mode. You know who they are, their dirty overcoats are under their seats and on before the last echo dies.