 After graduating high school, Quinn enrolled at the University of South Florida in Tampa, FL to major in music performance (clarinet).He took a job at Disney's EPCOT Center in Orlando as a substitute musician in a bagpipe trio, which led to a job at Tokyo Disneyland for the next two years.Returning to the US, he worked as a musician at EPCOT until enrolling at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia in 1995.