Not Quite My Tempo

Kudos to Damien Chazelle for writing this incredible character and for JK Simmons for playing Fletcher perfectly. One of the most quotable movies I've ever seen. I first saw it probably around 2016 and it's incredible. Doesn't get talked about enough. Anyway, here's so of my favorite Fletcher quotes

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For the record, Metz wasn't out of tune. You were, Erickson, but he didn't know and that's bad enough.

I ask why you stop playing and your version of an answer was to turn into a wind-up monkey.

THEN WHY THE FUCK DIDN'T YOU SAY SO? Carried your fat ass for too long, Metz. I'm not gonna have you cost us a competition because your mind's on a fucking happy meal instead of on pitch.

You are a worthless, friendless, faggot-lipped little piece of shit whose mommy left daddy when she figured out he wasn't Eugene O'Neill, and who is now weeping and slobbering all over my drum set like a fucking nine-year old girl! So for the final, FATHER-FUCKING time, SAY IT LOUDER!

I never really had a Charlie Parker. But I tried. I actually fucking tried. And that's more than most people ever do.


And here comes mister gay pride of the Upper West Side himself. Unfortunately, this is not a Bette Midler concert, we will not be serving Cosmopolitans and Baked Alaska, so just play faster than you give fucking hand jobs, will you please?


The folder is your fucking responsibility, Tanner. Why would you give it to Neiman? Right? You give a calculator to a fucking retard he's gonna try to turn on a TV with it. Now get your sticks and get your ass on stage.

Either you're deliberately out of tune and sabotaging my band, or you don't know you're out of tune, and that's even worse.

Really? Adjusting the seat, really? That's been your problem the whole fucking time, the seat height? So now you have it, right? Go!