I was a chorister at St Mary's Music School, from the ages…

Edinburgh is my favourite city. We'll be doing a lot of children's theatre and galleries.

— Carol Ann Duffy

I was twelve when I went to boarding school in Edinburgh.

— Jamie Parker

I've been to Venice, Rome, and Dubrovnik, but none of them come close to Edinburgh.

— Alexander Armstrong

Hunter High School was a real turning point for me. I found out about its existence through the music school. Nobody I knew had…

— Anonymous

I wish I finished music school, because then I feel like I could talk more about the dissonant notes.

— Petra Haden

By the end of high school, I had this fork-in-the-road moment where part of me considered going to vocational music school to really pursue…

— Damien Chazelle

I studied classical and jazz music and went to a music school.

— Hardwell

When it comes down to intuition, when it comes down to gut feelings about whether a song is right, you can get distracted with…

— Greg Saunier

I knew from the start that I wanted my life to be about music. I taught myself the notes of the piano aged three,…

— Ella Henderson

Yeah, I grew up playing lots of jazz music in school.

— Danny Carey

I got an A for music and it was at school that I learned to build a beat.

— Dizzee Rascal

I met my wife when we were both 19 or 20, at a music school where she was taking voice and piano lessons and…

— Rohinton Mistry

I started playing piano with a little band in high school. I was terrible. I thought I had absolutely no talent. I couldn't keep…

— Burt Bacharach

I trained in Hindustani, and then I went to music school.

— Shruti Haasan

I, as a young guy getting out of music school, I didn't like the prospect of spending my life writing music for about 200 people.

— Philip Glass