Exactly right. Anyway, who decides the value of music? If music gives you pleasure, then it has value to you. That's unlikely to change (the artistes/genre might) throughout your life. If music affects you, moves you, inspires you, it probably always will; if it never did then it may never do. Trying to qualify the value of music is like trying to qualify the value of religion, or sport, or television, or anything else that can matter in people's lives. Whether some Suit thinks is has value or not is entirely and completely irrelevant, and for him to try to make out he's the authority on the subject is another word ending in -ant, but beginning in arrog.
Music will always have value, as a medium for pleasure, relaxation, reflection, to aid sleep, to dance to, to inspire and incite political/social debate, and to help express our feelings in a way we often can't or aren't comfortable with. Music will be here, and being listened to, long after we all have turned to dust. Even now, it's heading out to space aboard a probe, carrying some of mankind's greatest music beyond our solar system and out of the galaxy.
In the end, music may very well be the last imprint we leave on this life, and will remain a signpost for future civilisations to what we were, what we did, what we achieved and how we interpreted the world around us.
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