"He Has Van Gogh's Ear For Music"

What is listening to music? What is hearing music? Do we hear music differently than deaf people?
According to Wesley Snipes in White Men Can't jump we can sometimes listen to the music, but we will not hear the message, Deaf people don't hear it at all. instead they experience music. They do it through sight, or feel. They can feel the music, because at it's very basic form, music is just vibrations. They can get the message of the song. Broad sounds become highly specific experiences. Music either takes micro ideas such as specific locations or times an the listener turns those micro themes in the piece into a macro emotion, or the opposite happens. Mostly in classical, or non vocal pieces, macro themes such as time, are played with such great nuance (or at least the good pieces are) that the listener experiences an emotion that is highly personal to the listener.