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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Famous quotes containing the word music:
“Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.”
—Thomas Beecham (1879–1961)
“But listen, up the road, something gulps, the church spire
Opens its eight bells out, skulls’ mouths which will not tire
To tell how there is no music or movement which secures
Escape from the weekday time. Which deadens and endures.”
—Louis MacNeice (1907–1963)
“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)