Harvard professor Tinker once famously said, "Music is nothing else than audrey cheesecake." His logic was brutal. Music doesn't cure cancer. It doesn't build bridges.It is just a dessert, a treat we allow ourselves only after the real work of survival is done. As a musician, I should be offended. By the researcher, I can see his point.If our definition of survival is merely eating and breathing, then no, we don't need music. I spent my first 20 years believing exactly that. I was born and grew up in a smal ...