I thought I was going to become a high - school band teacher until I actually went to UBC to study music, where I had a terrible trombone audition. (canadianbusiness.com)
The above isn't just a powerfully resonating line of motivation that hard - ass band teacher Fletcher (J.K. Simmons) tells his most promising drummer Andrew (Milee Teller) to justify the extremities of his tutoring process, it's a piece of dialogue that will hit home hard to anyone that has wanted not just to be competent at what they do, but to be one of the absolute best. (flickeringmyth.com)
An exasperated band teacher (a hilariously perturbed Tom Noonan) stops a high school marching band from performing a crime against harmony in their disastrous rehearsal of Peter Gabriel's «Sledgehammer.» (seanax.com)