All hardware items must be admired for their sonic properties: pitchforks, egg beaters, crowbars, fireplace grates, shovels, anvils, rebars (the structural reinforcement rods used in poured concrete), trash cans - the list goes on and on and they`re all waiting to be played.
- Tom Waits(on being typecast as a villain) I use the analogy that if you hit an old lady on screen with a shovel and kill her and somebody makes money from that moment, then they really don`t want you to step out from that parameter. They don`t want you to do anything but hit more old ladies with shovels and if that`s the trunk that I have to build my tree from, that`s fine.
- Michael IronsideTroubles are usually brooms and shovels that smooth the road to the good man`s fortune; and many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away hunger.
- Barbara Felton