British Artist Creates Jimi Hendrix Mosaic

This is a really nice piece of art, a mosaic of the legendary Jimi Hendrix made from more than 5,000 plectrums. The mosaic is on display at London's Abbey Road Studios.Ed Chapman, an artist from Manchester created this piece of art to raise money for Cancer Research UK. It is being auctioned tonight at the charity's Sound & Vision music heritage for a price between £12,000 and £16,000. It took

Seven quotes for a Thursday afternoon - Part forty three

Portrait of Edith Sitwell by Roger Fry, 1915
"My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence"
Edith Sitwell(1887-1964)



"Music is the mediator between the spiritual life and the sensual life"
Ludwig van Beethoven(1770-1827)



"Where words fail, music speaks"
Hans Christian Andersen(1805-1875)



"One good thing about music,when it hits you, you feel no pain"
Bob Marley(1945

Seven quotes for a Thursday afternoon - Part forty one

"Music is my religion"
Jimi Hendrix(1942-1970)



"There's no religion but sex and music"
Sting(b. 1951)




"I'm just a musical prostitute, my dear"
Freddie Mercury(1946-1991)



"For me, music and life are all about style"
Miles Davis(1926-1991)




"Without music to decorate it,time is just a bunch of boring production deadlinesor dates by which bills must be paid"
Frank Zappa(1940-1993)