Ben Folds
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 31 May
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The MeidasTouch Podcast · Ben Folds Responds to Performers Leaving Kennedy Center · 11 Jan 2026
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Well, I think artists, it's the same as I felt a year ago.
I think that the responsibility and the right of artists is to express honestly.
And it's a little bit sometimes like reportage.
It's a little bit like journalism.
And I think that that is what artists need to do right now while we still can't.
Obviously, you don't have to do it at the Kennedy Center.
It was an amazing place with an amazing mission and all kinds of access to facilities.
And it was beautiful.
And by the way, it used to make some money.
it's like not run well but the artist right now we should all be expressing ourselves with no there was a time uh i think and i came up in this era of the 90s this sort of shut up and sing era where you're worried you're going to alienate your artist i think right now is the time to absolutely stand up and and express yourself if that's political do it if it's social
do it if it's what you love for lunch hey that's fine too but be honest in your reporting because you may not have that luxury if we keep going like we're going better to do it now better to show up at the protest now than have to show up in the protest in a year and worried about getting you know jailed and killed it's now is the time to to in the artist's job has always been to be a little ahead of the curve
where things are going, the artist can explain that in terms that no one else is allowed to.
It doesn't have to make sense.
It has to feel right, and that's what moves people.
And the reason the arts are important, and all these people said they weren't important, that we're on the right side of the government.
They said, arts don't matter.
We don't need to fund it.
Boy, they sure thought it was important when it came to the Kennedy Center.
They took that over in like one month.
So the arts are important, and the artist is really needed right now.
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