Murray is all in favour of democracy, but not when it comes to artistic achievement, which has always been the glory of an exclusive elite. "There is a tension between democracy and mass markets, and the production of great art," he says. "There is a tendency for people producing art to go where the market is. The market will reward financially a lot of things that are not going to last as much as a couple of years or even a couple of months." The profit motive, it seems, can never be a vocation.