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From electrified blues guitars to electrified borders and ideas.

These Electrified quotes start with music history, crediting Muddy Waters for taking Delta blues north and electrifying its sound into something that changed popular music. That legacy connects to Age quotes about lasting influence.

Last Updated on May 30, 2021

Know
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Nov 07, 2020

It was Muddy Waters who took the Delta blues north to Chicago, electrified the sound, and changed the course of popular music as we know it. That's pretty much the judgment of history, and it is mine as well.

Quotes by Tim Cahill

Barbed
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Nov 07, 2020

Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.

Quotes by Ronald Reagan

He
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Nov 07, 2020

What is ironic is that Allen Ginsberg's importance was in its twilight for so many years that it took his death to bring it to the front page. He electrified an entire world!

Quotes by Rita Dove

Better
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Nov 07, 2020

About 10 years ago, in an effort to gain a better grasp on McCone's world, I took up the hobby of building fully electrified scale models: first of the legal cooperative where she started out, and then of her own brown-shingled cottage, a pursuit that the more tactful of my friends label unusual, and that the more blunt refer to as obsessive.

Quotes by Marcia Muller

Good
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Nov 07, 2020

I do feel almost violent when I'm watching things that I don't think are good enough. I get furious for the audience. I want to say to them, 'This play is not supposed to be like this. They've got it completely wrong. You should be electrified by this.'

Quotes by Lindsay Duncan

I Am
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Nov 07, 2020

What is this powerful have over my tub? Surely, I am transfixed by your firecracker charm and your suspended electrified wit.

Quotes by Isabel Yosito

Love
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Nov 07, 2020

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.

Quotes by George Jean Nathan

Hands
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Nov 07, 2020

When I was a child I devoured every book I could get my hands on. I loved losing myself in colourful and dramatic stories - and my absolute favourite was 'Charlie And The Chocolate Factory.' Everything about it electrified me, and when I re-read Roald Dahl's books as an adult it surprised me.

Quotes by David Walliams

Impress
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Nov 07, 2020

Christopher Hitchens, the late essayist and sot, was a man who purposefully cultivated a lot of friends of a certain type - rich, self-important, generally dim-witted and hence easy for a well-spoken Oxbridge debater to impress - and he electrified Washington D.C. society mainly by not being a completely charmless bore.

Quotes by Alex Pareene

Nov 07, 2020

When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That's what inspired the 'Off to the Races' melodies. That's one of the times when you're feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.

The word turns figurative elsewhere, describing information as something that wafts across electrified borders no barrier can fully contain. For more on barriers and what gets past them, see Barbed quotes.

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