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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“The man that hath no music in himself,
Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds,
Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils.
The motions of his spirit are dull as night,
And his affections dark as Erebus.
Let no such man be trusted.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“For do but note a wild and wanton herd
Or race of youthful and unhandled colts
Fetching mad bounds, bellowing and neighing loud,
Which is the hot condition of their blood;
If they but hear perchance a trumpet sound,
Or any air of music touch their ears,
You shall perceive them make a mutual stand,
Their savage eyes turned to a modest gaze
By the sweet power of music.”
—William Shake{peare (1564–1616)
“Nearly all the bands are mustered out of service; ours therefore is a novelty. We marched a few miles yesterday on a road where troops have not before marched. It was funny to see the children. I saw our boys running after the music in many a group of clean, bright-looking, excited little fellows.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)