Ben Folds
speaker
250 appearances
5 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 31 May
Ben Folds’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I hate Taylor Swift.
It might seem funny, yeah.
He's just up there laughing, but the pressure and the intimidation.
put its thumb on the scale of the arts.
So Rostropovich saw this and he defected from uh from the USSR and he found himself directing the National Uh Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center.
And what he enjoyed about that was a complete
Sacred firewall that existed protecting him from that kind of intimidation, from that kind of pressure, and that kind of influence.
I thought about him when I resigned.
in that minute because I I could feel suddenly for I sounded crazy before and all of a sudden it's real.
All of a sudden it's like this is real.
It's like, okay, there's not a firewall there anymore.
Uh, do go when I bring in artists as a curator, are they safe?
I I don't know.
I mean, uh can they say what they want to?
I I yeah, I guess they can, but what's the what's the consequence gonna be?
They can't trust me anymore.
And I can't trust
them and and there's no trust.
You know, before there wasn't a law that said you couldn't do this, so Trump did it.
But the reason the norms are there and the reason that America is America is because the people that steward it, not the institutions.
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