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How can music without any words make you think? I listen to jazz when I'm doing something else. I use it for background music, I don't just sit down and concentrate on it. Lyrics, words - that's what makes me think.

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Eddie Murphy
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: April 3
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Edward Murphy
Edward Regan Murphy
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