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"Die Musikindustrie geht heute nicht nur an mangelnder Kreativität zugrunde, sondern vor allem an ihren autoritären Strukturen und ihrem planwirtschaftlichen Kontrollwahn, so lange, bis jeder seinen Mist dazu getan hat, und bis die ganze Band in einem Netz aus Verpflichtungen hängt."
"Den Vertrag fĂĽr die deutschen Konzerte von Deep Purple 1972 habe ich auf einer Papiertischdecke in einem Gartenlokal auf der MendelssohnstraĂźe in Frankfurt gemacht. Mit deren Manager John Coletta ging das zackzack: Ihr kriegt die und die Garantie, wir kriegen die und die Prozente, fertig ist die Laube. Doppelte Ausfertigung, zwei Unterschriften, patsch."
"Beim Pink-Floyd-Konzert im Hamburger Audimax haben Fans die Türen mit einem Baumstamm aufgerammt! Das müssen Sie sich vorstellen! Wie die Wikinger! Wenn so ein Konzert ausfällt, liegt alles in Schutt und Asche."
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.