I met my wife when we were both 19 or 20, at a music…

I always wanted to be a musician, 100 percent, my whole life. I went to school, I did music theory, I did voice training…

— Adria Petty

There's definitely privilege in the upper classes, but as a whole, music can be enjoyed by anybody who can gather around a radio.

— Geoff Rickly

I don't like the word 'urban' because I think it's a bit of a generalisation and they use it to class music, but I…

— Taio Cruz

I'd gone to New York at an early age, and I got beat up a little bit, emotionally. So I thought I'd go home…

— Billy Squier

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 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