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"Everyone asks where these songs come from, Sylvie. But then you watch their faces, and they're not asking where the songs come from. They're asking why the songs didn't come to them."
"Your songs are like an oil painting at the dentist's office."
"More and more people have been showing up, and they're bringing their teaspoons. Teaspoons for justice, and teaspoons for peace, and teaspoons for love, and that's what we do. And, gosh, you showed up, Bobby, and damn it, if you didn't bring a shovel."
"You know, you're kind of an asshole, Bob."
"Dave Van Ronk: You can call it country or blues or rock'n'roll - we all keep rewriting the same song."
"He defied everyone to change everything."
"The ballad of a true original."
"Timothée Chalamet - Bob Dylan"
"Edward Norton - Pete Seeger"
"Elle Fanning - Sylvie Russo"
"Monica Barbaro - Joan Baez"
"Boyd Holbrook - Johnny Cash"
"Dan Fogler - Albert Grossman"
"Norbert Leo Butz - Alan Lomax"
"Eriko Hatsune - Toshi Seeger"
"Big Bill Morganfield - Jesse Moffette"
"Will Harrison - Bob Neuwirth"
"Scoot McNairy - Woody Guthrie"
"P. J. Byrne - Harold Leventhal"
"Michael Chernus - Theodore Bikel"
"Charlie Tahan - Al Kooper"
"Ryan Harris Brown - Mark Spoelstra"
"Eli Brown - Mike Bloomfield"
"Nick Pupo - Peter Yarrow"
"Laura Kariuki - Becka"
"Stephen Carter Carlsen - Paul Stookey"
"Eric Berryman - Tom Wilson"
"David Alan Basche - John Hammond"
"Joe Tippett - Dave Van Ronk"
"James Austin Johnson - Gerdes M.C."
"Kayli Carter - Maria Muldaur"
"Sarah King - Barbara Dane"
"Will Price - Joe Boyd"
"Joshua Henry - Brownie McGhee"
"Molly Jobe - CBS Receptionist"
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.