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""Wer glaubt, dass Musik immer gut sei, ist naiv. Militärmusik ist dazu gedacht, Leute vom Denken abzuhalten"
"Wenn ich musiziere, ist es wie eine Art Gebet. Ein Dank für diese Gabe."
""Unsere Kultur hat die h-Moll-Messe hervorgebracht. [...] Aber das gibt mir nicht das Recht, die Didgeridoo-Musik der australischen Ureinwohner als minderwertig zu betrachten. Wir müssen verstehen, dass andere Menschen Musik auf andere Weise machen"
"Mein [...] Musiklehrer war die BBC. Die sendete damals nur ein einziges Musikprogramm, aber das war sehr vielfältig. Zuerst Beethovens Fünfte und gleich darauf die Beatles; schade, dass es heute nur noch Spartenkanäle gibt."
""[...] man muss die Leute auch mit Schwierigem konfrontieren. Das ist wie der erste Schluck Campari oder Kaffee"
"Es gibt keine Religion außer Sex und Musik."
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.