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"Here's three samples, now go and make a record."
"I Think, Therefore I Ambient"
"Live the Dream, Dream the Fish"
"It's time to lie down and be counted."
"We've had 70 years of making records. Now, we sample them."
"I'd rather lie down than jump up."
"The dance industry is flogging a dead house."
"Music is for sharing with people."
"If you're going to make music, you need to find the context in which it might be enjoyed."
"Punk was predicated on non-musicianship."
"Whatever you like at age 16, you will find boring at age 32."
"It is time to reassess what has happened in the 20th century, and to look at it with a longer lens."
"I like the people who go the extra mile to find something more individual, with more integrity, than the stuff you get in the charts."
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.