Like two skeletons copulating on a corrugated tin roof.

-Beecham, SirThomas
Of the harpsichord's sound. Quoted in Harold  Atkins and Archie Newman Beecham Stories (1978).

Away with the music of Broadway! Be off with your Irving Berlin! Oh, I'd give no quarter to Kern or Cole Porter and Gershwin keeps pounding on tin. How can I be civil when hearing this drivel? It's only for night-clubbing souses. Oh, give me the free 'n'easy waltz that is Viennesey And go tell the band if they want a hand the waltz must be Strauss's!

-Gershwin, Ira originally Israel Gershowitz
  'By Strauss'.

I opened a tin of Bologna sausage and broke a cake of chocolate, and that was all I had to eat. It may sound offensive, but I ate them together, bite by bite, by way of bread and meat. All I had to wash down this revolting mixture was neat brandy; a revolting beverage in itself. But I was rare and hungry; ate well, and smoked one of thebestcigarettesinmyexperience.Then Iput a stonein my straw hat, pulled the flap of my fur cap over my neck and eyes, put my revolver ready to hand, and snuggled well down among the sheepskins.

-Stevenson, Robert Louis
  Travels with a Donkey.

What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof?öI wish I knew† Just staying on it, I guess, for as long as she can.

-Williams,TennesseeThomas Lanier
  Maggie. Cat on a HotTin Roof, act1.