The way we hear music, the way our mind processes music, is very, very different from this other kind of information, very different from history or economics.

我们接收音乐的方式,我们思绪的过程,与接受和思考任何其它的信息,比如历史,或者经济学,都是不同的

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The brain perceives all of this complex information and it processes it and it extrapolates from it the beat, but again nobody in music-- except the bass drum player in a marching band-- nobody in music ever does anything except just play the beat.

我们的大脑感知了所有复杂的信息加工后,推算出了拍子,不过没有人,除了军乐队的低音鼓手,没有人在音乐里仅仅只是打鼓点

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