Here's something kind of awkward that happened to me when I was a kid...someone asked me what the purpose of music is. Having never considered this at all, I was not in the slightest bit prepared to answer, and I think I turned very red and said something fairly inane about beauty or recognizing great art or some other dumb thing.  But while at the time I would rather have jumped straight out the window (had there been one) rather than try to answer, I do acknowledge that it is an important question, and I have often thought of what I should have said.  And my answer now, (now that I am an adult   and have had time to prepare,) is that the primary purpose of music is to foster connection and communication with other people. These things are obviously  important...we can't solve our problems without access to connection and communication - we probably won't agree or understand each other very well without them.  They are imperative to a functional society, and anything that promotes them is priceless.  And that's why I think that music is AWESOME and so incredibly valuable.