Source: On the Fetish Character in Music and the Regression of Listening (1938), p. 283
“No matter how you feel today, get up, dress up & show up”
“Faith' is merely fear dressed up as virtue.”
"Your faith is a joke" (16 December 2010) http://youtube.com/watch?v=P4dSiHqpULk
2010
“They've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.”
Interview by David Sheff in Rolling Stone Twentieth Anniversary Issue (1987)
Context: We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. They are a hundred times better educated than their grandparents, and ten times more sophisticated. There has never been such an open-minded group. The problem is that no one is giving them anything fresh. They've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.
“The dress-up freaks are coming back, and it’s wonderful to watch.”
As quoted in "Amanda Palmer Freaks Out With Evelyn Evelyn" by Scott Thill in WIRED (29 March 2010) http://www.wired.com/2010/03/amanda-palmer/
Context: Rock needs theater, rock is theater. We just go through different eras of guilty admission about this. Having risen with The Dresden Dolls in the heyday of The Strokes and The White Stripes, everyone was looking at us as completely misfit theater dorks. But it’s really encouraging to see a more theater-dork wave of bands like The Scissor Sisters, Antony & The Johnsons, CocoRosie, Patrick Wolf and even Arcade Fire and Decembrists becoming popular. The dress-up freaks are coming back, and it’s wonderful to watch.
“She's all dressed up like a well-kept grave.”
In reference to Jan Duggan's character in The Old Fashioned Way (1934)
“I am nothing but a bundle of nerves dressed up to look like a man.”
Volume II [Tauchnitz,
Source: The Woman in White (1859)
