Music
- Quintessence (English band), a 1970s progressive rock band specializing in Indian themes and sounds
- Quintessence (Quintessence album), 1970
- Quintessence (Finnish band), a Nu soul band led by singer Emma Salokoski
- Quintessence (French band), a black metal band founded in 2005
- Quintessence (Borknagar album)
- Quintessence (Bill Evans album), 1976
- Quintessence (The Soil Bleeds Black album)
- The Quintessence, a 1962 album released by Quincy Jones and his orchestra
- "Quintessence", a song by Darkthrone, from the album Panzerfaust
- "Quintessence", a song by Mastodon, from the album Crack the Skye
- Quintessence Records, a budget label
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“See where my Love sits in the beds of spices,
Beset all round with camphor, myrrh, and roses,
And interlaced with curious devices
Which her apart from all the world incloses!
There doth she tune her lute for her delight,
And with sweet music makes the ground to move,
Whilst I, poor I, do sit in heavy plight,
Wailing alone my unrespected love;”
—Bartholomew Griffin (d. 1602)
“I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man: wine is not so noble a liquor; and think of dashing the hopes of a morning with a cup of warm coffee, or of an evening with a dish of tea! Ah, how low I fall when I am tempted by them! Even music may be intoxicating. Such apparently slight causes destroyed Greece and Rome, and will destroy England and America.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)